Yossi Appleboum on How Bloomberg is Positioning His Research Against Supermicro
It&#x27;s an intriguing story.<p>Not to be too conspiratorial but one simple answer is that the US Feds asked Bloomberg to give the story legs, as a public signal to China. Either to raise the issue of China planting spyware chips on goods, or for some other political reason.<p>The CIA et. al. definitely have relationships with the big press outlets and stories are placed for reasons of national security. Not quite &#x27;propaganda&#x27; but definitely for &#x27;national cause&#x27;. The press is used as a way to communicate, as if to say &#x27;we know this, and now the world knows, hint, hint&#x27; ...