<story><title>Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloomberg&apos;s Hack Story</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/apple-china-hacking-bloomberg-servers-spies-fbi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>From 2016, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;information-technology&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;report-apple-designing-its-own-servers-to-avoid-snooping&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;information-technology&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;repor...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Apple has begun designing its own servers partly because of suspicions that hardware is being intercepted before it gets delivered to Apple, according to a report yesterday from The Information. &amp;quot;Apple has long suspected that servers it ordered from the traditional supply chain were intercepted during shipping, with additional chips and firmware added to them by unknown third parties in order to make them vulnerable to infiltration, according to a person familiar with the matter,&amp;quot; the report said. &amp;quot;At one point, Apple even assigned people to take photographs of motherboards and annotate the function of each chip, explaining why it was supposed to be there. Building its own servers with motherboards it designed would be the most surefire way for Apple to prevent unauthorized snooping via extra chips.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>captainmuon</author><text>&amp;gt; At one point, Apple even assigned people to take photographs of motherboards and annotate the function of each chip, explaining why it was supposed to be there.&lt;p&gt;I have done this before, and we actually found an unspeced part! Thankfully, it was not from a malicious state actor, but just one supplier being creative and not telling anybody. Especially if you don&amp;#x27;t have an iron grip on your supply chain, you have to be vigilant. As a manufacturer, there are more problems to watch out for than espionage.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloomberg&apos;s Hack Story</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/apple-china-hacking-bloomberg-servers-spies-fbi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>From 2016, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;information-technology&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;report-apple-designing-its-own-servers-to-avoid-snooping&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;information-technology&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;repor...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Apple has begun designing its own servers partly because of suspicions that hardware is being intercepted before it gets delivered to Apple, according to a report yesterday from The Information. &amp;quot;Apple has long suspected that servers it ordered from the traditional supply chain were intercepted during shipping, with additional chips and firmware added to them by unknown third parties in order to make them vulnerable to infiltration, according to a person familiar with the matter,&amp;quot; the report said. &amp;quot;At one point, Apple even assigned people to take photographs of motherboards and annotate the function of each chip, explaining why it was supposed to be there. Building its own servers with motherboards it designed would be the most surefire way for Apple to prevent unauthorized snooping via extra chips.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dpkonofa</author><text>This doesn&amp;#x27;t really mean anything, though. For all we know the &amp;quot;person familiar with the matter&amp;quot; is the same source Bloomberg used in their report. There&amp;#x27;s still not acknowledgement from Apple in 2016 that anything like this was actually happening.</text></comment>