TINY SPY CHIPS IN SERVERS?
STEALTH AND SKULDUGGERY
Has the Chinese state secretly put spy chips into Supermicro servers during manufacture? Have these servers been used by major companies and even government departments? That’s the alarming news in a report from
Bloomberg Businessweek. It claims the chips were uncovered in 2015 after a breakdown of hardware on behalf of Amazon. The authorities were informed, but not the public, and a lot of servers quietly sold off. The news has been strongly denied by Apple, Amazon, Supermicro, and the Department for Homeland Security. Bloomberg says it has 17 highly placed anonymous insiders who have confirmed the story. Surely, there’s more come….