New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom
The article says: "The manipulation of the Ethernet connector appeared to be similar to a method also used by the U.S. National Security Agency, details of which were leaked in 2013."<p>So the US doesn't exactly have clean hands.  Here's a theory:<p>1. The US wants to have more ability to spy<p>2. With most manufacturing in China, this is hard<p>3. Implicating Supermicro might cause their customers to switch suppliers.  It has already caused Supermicro stock to go down 41% then 27% again.<p>4. The US / Sepio Systems / former Mossad / former CIA officials come to the rescue with a company manufacturing "secure servers" not made in China.  Or more likely, still made in China, only under different control.<p>5. Result: profit, increase US ability to spy, "bring manufacturing back to US companies"<p>IMO, governments - all governments - have no ethics and will do whatever they want to further their agenda.