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A comment on UK cyber security agency backs Apple, Amazon China hack denials. Parent comment
> That's not what you do when you're trying to brush something off.
It /could/ be what you do if good relations with the Chinese government are crucial to your business (true for both Apple and Amazon).
As for the UK NCSC, it's bizarre that they would comment at all. One possible motivation: eagerness to discover how to use such a backdoor themselves
> “The NCSC engages confidentially with security researchers and urges anybody with credible intelligence about these reports to contact us”
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> That's not what you do when you're trying to brush something off.
It /could/ be what you do if good relations with the Chinese government are crucial to your business (true for both Apple and Amazon).
As for the UK NCSC, it's bizarre that they would comment at all. One possible motivation: eagerness to discover how to use such a backdoor themselves
> “The NCSC engages confidentially with security researchers and urges anybody with credible intelligence about these reports to contact us”