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Remember when Bloomberg ran a big hoax about China hacking every company in the USA using a tiny chip, 5 years back, and everyone swallowed it up and nothing happened to Bloomberg (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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The pile of shit itself: https://web.archive.org/web/20181009013621/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

Reddit reaction: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/duplicates/9lac9k/china_used_a_tiny_chip_in_a_hack_that_infiltrated/

(posted on reddit more than a hundred times, over 5000 comments spread out on every thread, back in 2018 this was a huge story... all bullshit)

Article detailing the aftermath: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/04/editorial-a-year-later-bloomberg-silently-stands-by-its-big-hack-icloud-spy-chip-story

It really is this transparent when we look back at it all.

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[-] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Personally I love looking back at the threads and seeing commenters jump through every loophole available to justify a chip that physically could not possibly exist (or if it did exist then China is secretly 250 years ahead of the world in terms of chip manufacturing). Just one example of the gymnastics.