I, too, wondered if this might have been planted by someone to either disrupt existing supply chains or raise awareness of this sort of vulnerability, but this makes it look more like journalistic incompetence, possibly magnified by pressure to have impact.
Why the Chinese? That makes zero sense. Much more likely the US who want more casus belli to go after China. Wouldn't be surprising at all seeing the moves by the US gov so far.
My guess is that the story was pushed by those that compete against Supermicro. Possibly due to their own security issues that have not yet been disclosed.
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What if the Chinese social engineered to get people to write this story. Meta.
In seriousness though this is starting to smell like the whole story is plain wrong. Which is fascinating, however it came to be.
What if the Chinese social engineered to get people to write this story. Meta.
So next time, when it's real, we'll all ignore the story?
I, too, wondered if this might have been planted by someone to either disrupt existing supply chains or raise awareness of this sort of vulnerability, but this makes it look more like journalistic incompetence, possibly magnified by pressure to have impact.
The Chinese... or a third party?
Why couldn't it be the Russians again! Up to their dastardly tricks.
Who would want to hurt Amazon or Apple... especially in the cloud business.
Why the Chinese? That makes zero sense. Much more likely the US who want more casus belli to go after China. Wouldn't be surprising at all seeing the moves by the US gov so far.
My guess is that the story was pushed by those that compete against Supermicro. Possibly due to their own security issues that have not yet been disclosed.