Report: Apple building its own servers to prevent snooping
<i></i><i>"Apple has long suspected that servers it ordered from the traditional supply chain were intercepted during shipping, with additional chips and firmware added to them by unknown third parties in order to make them vulnerable to infiltration"</i><i></i><p>Wow, so this is very interesting given, pretty much, everything that has been going on.<p>Will apple actually be the bastion of freedom (both in market and privacy) that the US supposedly stands for??<p>Google makes its own machines, as does facebook (actually more interested in FB's fiber switches/routers, but thats beside the point)....<p>But Apple has made "servers" for years... I guess they didnt consume them in their own DCs?? So I basically take it that they are effectively joining their take on Open Compute (mobos that can be mounted in controlled environments, where controlled now also means they can ID if anything was modded/changed in shipping?)<p><i></i><i>EDIT: I would really like to know how long "long" is from "apple long suspected"....<p>I was informed of NSA back-doors in Cisco gear in 1997 - WTF is Cisco's stance on any of this -- I haven't heard anything from them at all (or I missed anything they said)</i><i></i>