<story><title>Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/vodafone-found-hidden-backdoors-in-huawei-equipment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0898</author><text>As Jon Gruber says: &amp;quot;Bloomberg, of course, is the publication that published “The Big Hack” in October — a sensational story alleging that data centers of Apple, Amazon, and dozens of other companies were compromised by China’s intelligence services.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The story presented no confirmable evidence at all, was vehemently denied by all companies involved, has not been confirmed by a single other publication (despite much effort to do so), and has been largely discredited by one of Bloomberg’s own sources.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;By all appearances “The Big Hack” was complete bullshit. Yet Bloomberg has issued no correction or retraction, and seemingly hopes we’ll all just forget about it. I say we do not just forget about it. Bloomberg’s institutional credibility is severely damaged, and everything they publish should be treated with skepticism until they retract the story or provide evidence that it was true.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krn</author><text>I have explained why Bloomberg&amp;#x27;s story would have been vehemently denied by all companies involved even if it was completely true:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=18655803&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=18655803&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many people in tech, including John Gruber, seem to lack a basic understanding of who makes decisions concerning national security and international politics.</text></comment>
<story><title>Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/vodafone-found-hidden-backdoors-in-huawei-equipment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0898</author><text>As Jon Gruber says: &amp;quot;Bloomberg, of course, is the publication that published “The Big Hack” in October — a sensational story alleging that data centers of Apple, Amazon, and dozens of other companies were compromised by China’s intelligence services.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The story presented no confirmable evidence at all, was vehemently denied by all companies involved, has not been confirmed by a single other publication (despite much effort to do so), and has been largely discredited by one of Bloomberg’s own sources.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;By all appearances “The Big Hack” was complete bullshit. Yet Bloomberg has issued no correction or retraction, and seemingly hopes we’ll all just forget about it. I say we do not just forget about it. Bloomberg’s institutional credibility is severely damaged, and everything they publish should be treated with skepticism until they retract the story or provide evidence that it was true.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neximo64</author><text>How do you know for sure that the story is false? As you&amp;#x27;ve mentioned Bloomberg hasn&amp;#x27;t corrected or retracted the story. Governments and companies have in the past denied things that have been true.&lt;p&gt;Do you seriously think Huawei vehemently denying that it has backdoors in its technology makes it true all of a sudden?</text></comment>