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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its C... by Animats on Friday October 19, 2018 @05:40PM (#18260268)
Enough people have access to Supermicro boards that this should have been found by now. Adding a part seems unnecessary just to add a back door. Intel CPU chips already have built-in back doors; you just have to enable them.
Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its C... by MertsA on Saturday October 20, 2018 @02:02AM (#18261978)
Exactly, why can't any of their sources just swipe one of the unpopulated PCBs? Even just having a physical circuit board with 6 extra pads added onto it would at least give a hint of truth to their claims.