Talk is cheap, show me the code/server/chip if they ever exist. Otherwise, the story is just a blunt lie fabricated by Bloomberg serving as a propaganda to bash China amid the Sino-America trade war.
Talk is cheap, show me the code/server/chip if they ever exist. Otherwise, the story is just a blunt lie fabricated by Bloomberg serving as a propaganda to bash China amid the Sino-America trade war.
Bloomberg is a journalism organization. They'll report and cross-check testimony that there's been a chemical weapons attack in Syria, but they're not going to go there to collect samples of the chemicals. They aren't going to have "the code/server/chip" to show you, and they shouldn't be expected to.
Furthermore, the people who talked to Bloomberg who may have access to the "code/server/chip" are anonymous and may not be able to have too many details released publicly without compromising their identities. Bloomberg may have more details than they have reported, but be unable to release them publicly while respecting their sources' confidence.
This is where you misunderstand. An anonymous source isn't "just some dude" who called in "saying so." Journalists, in the case Bloomberg, knows exactly who their "anonymous" sources are.
The question you have to ask yourself is whether you trust Bloomberg or not. If you trust them, then you trust that they did their due diligence. if you don't trust them, then nothing presented by them will get you to trust them.
I swear, it's like people don't know how investigative journalism works. Anonymous sources aren't anonymous to the journalists.
As for the companies denying this, this wouldn't be the first time they've lied in such a manner.
Tech companies don't want to be hacked. And if they are, they want to be able to say "we cleaned things up and everything is safe now," not "we were infiltrated several years ago and have no idea what the malware does or even which systems it impacts."