So many different people have emphatically said they were misquoted and that the story is flat out wrong, in addition to the fact that absolutely no solid physical evidence has been found. It’s...
So many different people have emphatically said they were misquoted and that the story is flat out wrong, in addition to the fact that absolutely no solid physical evidence has been found.
It’s astounding to me that Bloomberg hasn’t retracted their story (and in fact promoted one of the story’s authors). It makes me skeptical of every story they publish.
It’s really quite maddening actually. How many people are at least sufficiently competent at their jobs and get terminated for minor mistakes? Whereas, one of the contributors on this piece gets...
It’s really quite maddening actually. How many people are at least sufficiently competent at their jobs and get terminated for minor mistakes? Whereas, one of the contributors on this piece gets promoted. I have no personal illusions that we live in a meritocracy, and you aren’t guaranteed to rise based on merit. But, I’d also like to think that incompetence is not rewarded. That story probably made Bloomberg a lot of money. And they seem to not have had any bad consequences from it. Sure, a lot of technical folks won’t trust Bloomberg reporting going forward, but if there’s a wider nontechnical audience out there who doesn’t know better then we end up with a world where a major news outlet gets to actively misinform millions of people and simply brush it off when they are called out for it. This is a very seriously bad situation.
For the confused, this is referring to the Bloomberg story about how Supermicro had tiny chips embedded into them that leaked data to the Chinese. Given that there has still been zero updates from...
For the confused, this is referring to the Bloomberg story about how Supermicro had tiny chips embedded into them that leaked data to the Chinese.
Given that there has still been zero updates from Bloomberg on the story and numerous refutations from just about everybody involved, I think that it's safe to say that Bloomberg is not a source to be trusted anymore.
Going into conspiracy theory territory, I believe that Bloomberg News was being influenced by the US government, which has been on an economic war against Chinese technology for the past few years. I think they gave them the fake story and Bloomberg will not renounce it because the fact that they published it would be an even worse blow to their credibility.
So many different people have emphatically said they were misquoted and that the story is flat out wrong, in addition to the fact that absolutely no solid physical evidence has been found.
It’s astounding to me that Bloomberg hasn’t retracted their story (and in fact promoted one of the story’s authors). It makes me skeptical of every story they publish.
It’s really quite maddening actually. How many people are at least sufficiently competent at their jobs and get terminated for minor mistakes? Whereas, one of the contributors on this piece gets promoted. I have no personal illusions that we live in a meritocracy, and you aren’t guaranteed to rise based on merit. But, I’d also like to think that incompetence is not rewarded. That story probably made Bloomberg a lot of money. And they seem to not have had any bad consequences from it. Sure, a lot of technical folks won’t trust Bloomberg reporting going forward, but if there’s a wider nontechnical audience out there who doesn’t know better then we end up with a world where a major news outlet gets to actively misinform millions of people and simply brush it off when they are called out for it. This is a very seriously bad situation.
For the confused, this is referring to the Bloomberg story about how Supermicro had tiny chips embedded into them that leaked data to the Chinese.
Given that there has still been zero updates from Bloomberg on the story and numerous refutations from just about everybody involved, I think that it's safe to say that Bloomberg is not a source to be trusted anymore.
Going into conspiracy theory territory, I believe that Bloomberg News was being influenced by the US government, which has been on an economic war against Chinese technology for the past few years. I think they gave them the fake story and Bloomberg will not renounce it because the fact that they published it would be an even worse blow to their credibility.