Apple is now designing its own servers, as it suspects hardware bought in the past has been tampered with before being delivered to them.
According to a report by The Information, Apple has held these suspicions for quite some time, to the point that it even began assigning people to "take photographs of motherboards and annotate the function of each chip, explaining why it was supposed to be there."
Chips and other firmware are thought to have been added by outside parties to make the servers easier to access; as noted by Ars Technica, the NSA has been known to modify hardware before it reached its recipient.
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According to a report by The Information, Apple has held these suspicions for quite some time, to the point that it even began assigning people to "take photographs of motherboards and annotate the function of each chip, explaining why it was supposed to be there."
Chips and other firmware are thought to have been added by outside parties to make the servers easier to access; as noted by Ars Technica, the NSA has been known to modify hardware before it reached its recipient.
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