Stefan Mileschin

Claims Apple is impossible to hack

Supermicro Computer has told its customers that it will review its hardware for any proof of malicious chips as alleged in a recent Bloomberg report and that such a hack would be "practically impossible".

"Despite the lack of any proof that a malicious hardware chip exists, we are undertaking a complicated and time-consuming review to address the article further", the company said in a letter to its customers dated Thursday.

A Bloomberg Businessweek story cited 17 unidentified sources from intelligence agencies and businesses that claimed Chinese spies had placed computer chips inside equipment used by about 30 companies, including Apple and Amazon and multiple U.S. government agencies, which would give Beijing secret access to internal networks.

Supermicro denied the allegations made in the report and outlined in its letter to customers how complex such a hack would be.

Supermicro executives wrote that not only would the alleged Chinese hackers need to skirt regular testing, but the unauthorised hardware would make it "highly unlikely" for their motherboards to work.

Of course, that assumes that the Chinese don’t know what they are doing.

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