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C'mon Cat ...
The regime change offerings by the US Government with Pentagon leadership had full support of the California BIG tech companies. We're fighting TERROR ever since the 9/11 attacks ... don't you know??
Well known are the AT&T taps by the US Government plus the consortium of Five Eyes on global intelligence without borders. Five Eyes has expanded to Nine Eyes and more ... Israel's Unit 8200 and Mossad are fully equipped with raw data from the NSA and GCHQ. Furthermore there has been an active cyber warfare as part of US and NATO intelligence gathering.
I checked the blog archives here at ET and across the pond at BT ... nothing shows in a search for Google's "defection tracker" except my one diary in July 2016. I've written more diaries about colour revolutions and digital information warfare at the start of the so-called Arab Uprising. The Gulf States have weaponized social media to suppress dissent with support from US tech companies.
This is just a small part ...
○ Clinton Is No Democrat - Dallas Morning News ○ Google planned to help Syrian rebels bring down Assad regime, leaked Hillary Clinton emails claim
Internet stayed available for the rebels in Syria thanks to tech support from Western nations and companies.
Recent "discovery" in The Netherlands for similar "non-lethal" support to murderous jihadist factions in Syria.
○ Dutch government faces legal trouble after aiding terrorists Global Warming - distance between America and Europe is steadily increasing.
Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story | Buzzfeed | Apple, however, has maintained that none of this is true -- in a comment to Bloomberg, in a vociferous and detailed company statement, and in a letter to Congress signed by Apple's vice president of information security, George Stathakopoulos. Meanwhile, Bloomberg has stood steadfastly by its story and even published a follow-up account that furthered the original's claims. The result has been an impasse between some of the world's most powerful corporations and a highly respected news organization, even in the face of questions from Congress. On Thursday evening, an indignant Cook further ratcheted up the tension in response to an inquiry from BuzzFeed News. "There is no truth in their story about Apple," Cook told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview. "They need to do that right thing and retract it."
Apple, however, has maintained that none of this is true -- in a comment to Bloomberg, in a vociferous and detailed company statement, and in a letter to Congress signed by Apple's vice president of information security, George Stathakopoulos. Meanwhile, Bloomberg has stood steadfastly by its story and even published a follow-up account that furthered the original's claims.
The result has been an impasse between some of the world's most powerful corporations and a highly respected news organization, even in the face of questions from Congress. On Thursday evening, an indignant Cook further ratcheted up the tension in response to an inquiry from BuzzFeed News.
"There is no truth in their story about Apple," Cook told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview. "They need to do that right thing and retract it."
Decoding the Chinese Super Micro super spy-chip super-scandal: What do we know - and who is telling the truth? - The Register
So which is true: did the Chinese government succeed in infiltrating the hardware supply chain and install spy chips in highly sensitive US systems; or did Bloomberg's journalists go too far in their assertions? We'll dig in.
And two days ago:
Forgotten that Chinese spy chip story? We haven't - it's still wrong, Super Micro tells SEC - The Regidter
As far as El Reg is concerned, while Bloomberg is generally a gold standard in journalism, there are numerous problems with the original piece. For one thing, it would be near impossible to exfiltrate data from a bugged machine in a data center as Apple and Amazon, at least, have sophisticated monitoring tools that should catch unexpected network traffic. Similarly, they should be able to detect unauthorized changes to operating systems and applications, caused by the alleged spy chips injecting backdoor code into the software stack during boot. They also inspect hardware before it is put into production: as well as visual inspections, it is possible to scan a motherboard for electromagnetic emissions and identify anything unexpected, such as a tiny chip smuggled onto or inside a PCB - there's even a patent on this kind of technology. Finally, the chip shown in the Bloomberg piece is too small to realistically contain the necessary logic and all the data to insert a viable backdoor into a software stack. It is likely just an illustration - meaning, the journalists had no evidence of a chip to show.
They also inspect hardware before it is put into production: as well as visual inspections, it is possible to scan a motherboard for electromagnetic emissions and identify anything unexpected, such as a tiny chip smuggled onto or inside a PCB - there's even a patent on this kind of technology. Finally, the chip shown in the Bloomberg piece is too small to realistically contain the necessary logic and all the data to insert a viable backdoor into a software stack. It is likely just an illustration - meaning, the journalists had no evidence of a chip to show.
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