> it's commonly accepted that Bloomberg's 2018 stories on the Supermicro hack were bogus
Somebody owes a little apology here I think - if Bloomberg story confirms, which I now give a very good chance. Especially the "experts" that were so uniformly wrong. Schneier did recognize he was wrong, but only very matter-of-factly. I think there's more work to be done to figure out why so many people got so huge a story so wrong. I do not call for public shamings or anything, God forbid, but there should be some more work on this done than "ok, I was wrong, never mind", if turns out we had so many people get it wrong. There's a lot of trust placed in "experts" - in fact, disagreeing once with "experts" are now the grounds for a permanent ban from many platforms - and if they are getting things so wrong, we're finding ourselves in a very bad situation, information-wise.
Somebody owes a little apology here I think - if Bloomberg story confirms, which I now give a very good chance. Especially the "experts" that were so uniformly wrong. Schneier did recognize he was wrong, but only very matter-of-factly. I think there's more work to be done to figure out why so many people got so huge a story so wrong. I do not call for public shamings or anything, God forbid, but there should be some more work on this done than "ok, I was wrong, never mind", if turns out we had so many people get it wrong. There's a lot of trust placed in "experts" - in fact, disagreeing once with "experts" are now the grounds for a permanent ban from many platforms - and if they are getting things so wrong, we're finding ourselves in a very bad situation, information-wise.