it honestly attempts to conflate several security breaches over decades. I dunno if it intentionally mudding the water for the FBI to run counterintelligence or it's a political/corporate hitjob via media outelt(s) https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/ Bloomberg Businessweek first reported on China’s meddling with Supermicro products in October 2018, in an article that focused on accounts of added malicious chips found on server motherboards in 2015. That story said Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. had discovered the chips on equipment they’d purchased. Supermicro, Apple and Amazon publicly called for a retraction. U.S. government officials also disputed the article. In its written response to questions, Supermicro said that no customer or government agency has ever informed the company about the discovery of malicious chips in its equipment. It also said it has “never found any malicious chips, even after engaging a third-party security firm to conduct an independent investigation on our products.” The company didn’t respond to a question about who chose the samples that were investigated. After Bloomberg reported on the added-chip threat in October 2018, officials for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the NSA made public statements either discounting the report’s validity or saying they had no knowledge of the attack as described. The NSA said at the time it was “befuddled” by Bloomberg’s report and was unable to corroborate it; the agency said last month that it stands by those comments.
Yep. I remembered that Apple refuted the story, even the Department of Homeland security sided with Apple on this.
Ah, this story out of the blue again now makes sense: https://www.eetimes.com/ceos-urge-president-biden-to-fund-chips-executive-order-expected/ CEOs Urge President Biden to Fund Chips, Executive Order Expected As CEOs of the leading chip companies signed a letter to US President Biden urging him to prioritize funding for semiconductor manufacturing and research, the White House press secretary Jen Psaki said late last week in a press briefing that industry should expect an executive order to be signed within weeks. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) board of directors, CEOs and senior executives at leading chip companies sent a letter to President Biden urging him to include substantial funding for semiconductor manufacturing and research in the administration’s economic recovery and infrastructure plan. SIA represents 98 percent of the U.S. semiconductor industry by revenue. https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ecutive-order-fuel-us-semiconductor-industry/ The Cybersecurity 202: Biden will sign an executive order to fuel the U.S. semiconductor industry The decision comes amid the broader White House review of former president Donald Trump's China trade policies, which cracked down on Chinese technology for national security reasons. Some industry officials say the actions led to the shortage of chips currently stalling production by U.S. manufacturers in the automotive and other industries.