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Department of Homeland Security Has 'No Reason to Doubt' Apple's Denial of Supply Chain Compromise

Saturday October 6, 2018 8:06 pm PDT by Joe Rossignol
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today said it has "no reason to doubt" the companies who denied a bombshell Bloomberg Businessweek report this week about Chinese spies using a tiny chip to infiltrate U.S. companies.


Homeland Security's full statement:
The Department of Homeland Security is aware of the media reports of a technology supply chain compromise. Like our partners in the UK, the National Cyber Security Centre, at this time we have no reason to doubt the statements from the companies named in the story. Information and communications technology supply chain security is core to DHS's cybersecurity mission and we are committed to the security and integrity of the technology on which Americans and others around the world increasingly rely. Just this month – National Cybersecurity Awareness Month – we launched several government-industry initiatives to develop near- and long-term solutions to manage risk posed by the complex challenges of increasingly global supply chains. These initiatives will build on existing partnerships with a wide range of technology companies to strengthen our nation's collective cybersecurity and risk management efforts.
Apple, Amazon, and Supermicro have all strongly refuted the report, which alleged that Chinese intelligence planted microchips in Supermicro servers, which Apple and Amazon previously used in their data centers.

Apple and Bloomberg Businessweek are in a stalemate, with the former strongly refuting the report, and the latter standing by its reporting.

Apple's denial has been backed by not only the Department of Homeland Security, but also the UK's national cyber security agency, retired Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell, and other unnamed senior executives within Apple.

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Tags: China, The Big Hack
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ctg7w6
19 weeks ago
If it really did happen it would make sense to deny it so that the enemy doesn’t know you know...
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RedGala
19 weeks ago
Bloomberg Businessweek's reputation is indefinitely tainted in my eyes.
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Amacfa
19 weeks ago

Bloomberg Businessweek's reputation is indefinitely tainted in my eyes.

Aren’t almost all media outlets ?
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cmaier
19 weeks ago
There’s literally no evidence it is true, and tons of evidence that it is false. Among the most compelling arguments against it being true is that it’s so technically infeasible as to border on impossible.
Rating: 11 Votes
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BasicGreatGuy
19 weeks ago
Either a good game of pysops, or Bloomberg owes Apple a printed apology.
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mozumder
19 weeks ago

Aren’t almost all media outlets ?

Only if you're a narcissist and think you know more than all professional media.
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thisisnotmyname
19 weeks ago
So was the cry of "fake news" real for once?
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iapplelove
19 weeks ago

Trump America is a joke! I can’t even believe I’m reading all this nonsense! Such an obvious manipulation and a pathetic attempt to steer attention away from the whole Russia thing.



lmao I figured it wouldn’t take long for someone to blame trump here. And I don’t even like him. Come on now
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WatchFromAfar
19 weeks ago
Department of Homeland Security Has 'No Reason to Doubt' Apple's Denial of Supply Chain Compromise

Doesn’t mean it's not happening; just saying
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yadmonkey
19 weeks ago

So was the cry of "fake news" real for once?


For once?
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