Posted on 03/24/2016 6:26:06 PM PDT by markomalley
Link only to comply with FR guidelines.
Heck, back in the 90’s Time magazine posted an article about the NSA making their own PCs because they couldn’t trust that nations or companies weren’t putting back doors in them.
But we should trust the gubmint, right?
Strange article. Apple has been making servers for years. I’m typing on a Mac Mini Server (2010 model) at this moment. Their high-end servers are very powerful.
AND:
“Apple has long suspected that servers it ordered from the traditional supply chain were intercepted during shipping, with additional chips and firmware added to them by unknown third parties in order to make them vulnerable to infiltration, according to a person familiar with the matter. At one point, Apple even assigned people to take photographs of motherboards and annotate the function of each chip, explaining why it was supposed to be there. Building its own servers with motherboards it designed would be the most surefire way for Apple to prevent unauthorized snooping via extra chips.”
Those servers were Dell and HP I think.
See my comment above - it is the chips not the boxes. Chips were added by unknown 3rd parties to AAPL servers during shipment.
Ah, got it. They make their own chips and computers in the U.S.A. for desktops (Austin, Fremont etc.), so it would serve them well to use components made here rather than servers from overseas. Shame on them for using HP/Dell (crappy computers I've always had problems with). I have a couple HP boxes, not a single component from here.
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