[roadcat]

Apple CANCELLED its order for 30,000 servers in 2015 when it discovered they contained the motherboards that had this "tiny spy chip" in them, avoiding the spying problem.

If true, good for Apple to avoid this spying problem embedded in other company servers. It is so convenient to have your data in the cloud and access it from multiple devices in different places. As long as you're willing to risk the scenario that others can intercept your data. Not a problem for many of us, but still something to worry about. It amazes me how quickly I can manipulate my spreadsheet data in the cloud, when decades ago it took forever to download a megabyte of data. Different world now.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Apple CANCELLED its order for 30,000 servers in 2015 when it discovered they contained the motherboards that had this "tiny spy chip" in them, avoiding the spying problem.

Apple certainly is in a position to do this, and I certainly want to believe that they did - so I think I will.

I’m more worried about someone inserting unwanted logic inside a chip. Seems like in principle that could be hard to detect via testing.

[minnesota_bound]

#17 Office 365 recently installed at my place of work, which is in dozens of countries. Makes it easy now for spies to get any info they want while sitting in their cubicle in say China or Russia. Microsoft had an outage a few weeks ago for Office 365 and many companies just had to wait for Microsoft to fix the problem. Would have been no problem if the company had a local mail server and not be dependent on a 3rd party.