Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story
Is it precedented for a news organization to double down like this in the case where a reporter just makes stuff up Stephen Glass style?<p>Because barring a Stephen Glass scenario, what&#x27;s fascinating here is that no matter which side is right, this is evidence of some sort of mysterious power play.<p>Either Apple was hacked, they know, and are denying, which is evidence of them being under the thumb of U.S. national security.<p>Or, they were hacked and an internal team knows and Cook doesn&#x27;t, which is evidence of U.S. national security having powerful influence inside of Apple.<p>Or, they weren&#x27;t hacked, and Bloomberg is doubling down, which at this point would mean that someone has successfully hacked their journalistic verification processes to an extreme level.<p>In all three of those cases, it points to a level of attacker competence that I&#x27;m not normally inclined to believe in.