So let me get this straight... Super Micro hired a firm, who then asked the manufacturers, "Hey guys can we please have your design files for your PCBs" and then they looked at the parts list and said, "Nope, no dedicated backdoor chips here" ?
They didn't really do a thorough examination of the devices in question, but asked the manufacturer for the CAD files?
You should really do thorough examination of the article it's really short.
They did examine hardware both in production and already sold to Apple and Amazon samples.
Well what I was wondering was, what did they examine to be exact? Did they decap chips and reverse engineer them?
The article as you say, is really short. Too short, there isn't really any information in it, besides "Trend micro said this, take their word for it"...
From the article: “Nardello tested samples of motherboards in current production and versions that were sold to Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc, which were both named in the article, the person said.”
At some point it is up to Bloomberg to show something. It isn’t possible to show a negative in this case.
Well the article doesn't mention how or what was tested. The article doesn't really state what they tested for... Did they swing a dead chicken over the board while chanting "Evils reveal yourself", did they decap chips? Did they just install trend-micro antivirus and let it run?
Again from the article: “A person familiar with the analysis told Reuters it had been conducted by global firm Nardello & Co and that customers could ask for more detail on that company’s findings.”
They didn't really do a thorough examination of the devices in question, but asked the manufacturer for the CAD files?