you say bogus, I say its entirely possible.

https://www.wired.com/story/plant-spy-chips-hardware-supermi...

Lots of things are entirely possible; many fewer have any tangible evidence that they actually happened.

If you trust Edward Snowden (a lot of HN users appear to), wouldn't his leaks be tangible evidence?

Those would be tangible evidence that it's possible, again, not that it happened in the Chinese supply chain as alleged in the Bloomberg story that hasn't been retracted yet.

Bloomberg didn't say possible, though. They said it had happened, and been discovered.

Specifically, they said "A major U.S. telecommunications company discovered manipulated hardware from Super Micro Computer Inc. in its network". And then that manipulated hardware was never produced and verified, Bloomberg provided no evidence for the claim, every outside investigation disagreed with it, and their primary source criticized the story (in favor of an even broader, equally unproven assertion).

It's an interesting theoretical attack, but Bloomberg made specific, concrete assertions which are, according to all available evidence, bogus.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/new-evide...

Supermicro never sued Bloomberg despite having lost a chunk of their valuation because of that article. Just saying.

The problem is that they would have to prove that Bloomberg wasn't just incompetent, but rather malicious. It's entirely possible (and imo the most likely scenario) that Bloomberg didn't fabricate the story, but were duped.

This rarely works. And it's not the company that would lead such a lawsuit, it's the shareholders.

That's not true. The company would have plenty of damages to their reputation that a lawsuit would be perfectly reasonable. Not to mention the fact that lost market cap also damages the companies ability to hire and retain talent.