Supermicro: We Told You the Tampering Claims Were False

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Computer manufacturer Supermicro is still trying to lay to rest reports that the Chinese government tampered with its equipment to spy on Western cloud users. The San Jose-based company published a letter this week claiming that independent tests had cleared its equipment of any compromise.

Supermicro sells data centre computers to Western customers using components made by contractors in China. It has spent the last two months denying that Chinese subcontractors have been secretly embedding microscopic chips onto its motherboards that enable it to remotely control the computers’ operating systems and watch what they’re doing. In the letter, posted on the company’s website, president and CEO Charles Liang along with two senior vice presidents said that the company had completed an independent audit to look for malicious hardware on its motherboards. It found nothing, it said. This latest missive follows a letter to customers issued on 18 October 2018 that condemned a story published by Bloomberg on 4 October 2018. The story claimed that the Chinese government had coerced contractors to implant tiny monitoring devices on motherboards sold to Supermicro. Apple and Amazon, which Bloomberg said knew about the compromised motherboards, both denied the tampering claims along with the manufacturer shortly after the story was published. Bloomberg didn’t back down, though. The company claimed in a story on 9 October 2018 that a security expert, Yossi Applebaum, had discovered embedded monitoring devices in the ethernet connectors on Supermicro motherboards sold to a major US telco. However, in neither story did it publish hard evidence such as photos or analysis data to support its claims. Mind you, Supermicro didn’t publish the evidence in this latest report either.
 

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Warning! Don't ever drink tea because tea was first grown in China, they have put nano particles in the leaves that go inside your body and collect all the info and send them back to China. :eek:
 
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Hahahahaha

"Yossi Applebaum, had discovered embedded monitoring devices in the ethernet connectors on Supermicro motherboards sold to a major US telco"

Just by inverted reading:

Yossi = read iOS
Applebaum = read Apple Mob

Another shady tactics to evict Chinese companies.

Apple guys really lack of imagination for they fake pseudo. :p
 

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Warning! Don't ever drink tea because tea was first grown in China, they have put nano particles in the leaves that go inside your body and collect all the info and send them back to China. :eek:
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Brain washing is the most powerful tool in the world. If you can brainwash people you can control them the way you want. We have seen how even highly educated people are brainwashed to join terror groups. Same way if you tell common people again and again same things (here bad words for products from China) they start to believe in those things. That way people will start to buy locally made products even if they are of higher price and the companies will make huge profit. First they procured products at cheap rates from China and made huge profits and now as Chinese companies are themselves entering the market they feel threatened.
I can give you a classic example of this. When Colgate came to India a lot of people used to brush their teeth using salt and charcoal. They said that using those two things is very poisonous, but now Colgate themselves sell toothpaste which have salt and charcoal and they are advertising that its good for teeth.
 
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Brain washing is the most powerful tool in the world. If you can brainwash people you can control them the way you want. We have seen how even highly educated people are brainwashed to join terror groups. Same way if you tell common people again and again same things (here bad words for products from China) they start to believe in those things. That way people will start to buy locally made products even if they are of higher price and the companies will make huge profit. First they procured products at cheap rates from China and made huge profits and now as Chinese companies are themselves entering the market they feel threatened.
I can give you a classic example of this. When Colgate came to India a lot of people used to brush their teeth using salt and charcoal. They said that using those two things is very poisonous, but now Colgate themselves sell toothpaste which have salt and charcoal and they are advertising that its good for teeth.
Can't say better, sadly most people have no clues on geopolitics and economy, hence drinking what it is said without thinking; especially on social medias, where they believe all us true.
 
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