It’s a bad world, everyone is at it, nobody can be trusted blindly.
An official cited anonymously by Bloomberg said the supply chain-level breach affected almost 30 companies, including Amazon Web Services and Apple.
In a statement published Thursday, Apple denied the Bloomberg report, claiming malicious chips were never uncovered.
"We are deeply disappointed that in their dealings with us, Bloomberg’s reporters have not been open to the possibility that they or their sources might be wrong or misinformed," read Apple's statement.
Amazon called the report "erroneous" in a blog post published Thursday. "At no time, past or present, have we ever found any issues relating to modified hardware or malicious chips in Super Micro motherboards in any Elemental or Amazon systems," the company said.
In a statement released Thursday, Bloomberg News said the story required more than a year of reporting and more than 100 interviews. They also said 17 individual sources confirmed the manipulated hardware."
I remember the furor on HN at the time, and to my recollection a lot of the allegations were about backdoors for the NSA into their data and such, and that's what the companies denied.
Looking at Google's statement[1] of the time, I'm not sure I can find any fault with it?
To me, the big revelations from Snowden were about the NSA capturing all data on the internet backbone, and tapping unencrypted links inside Google's network without their knowledge.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
[1] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/what.html