Risky Business Feature: Named source in "The Big Hack" has doubts about the story

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In this podcast hardware security expert Joe Fitzpatrick, a named source in Bloomberg’s “Big Hack” piece, explains why he felt uncomfortable reading the story when it was published.

He also provided Risky.Biz with emails he sent to Bloomberg, prior to the story’s publication, that said the hardware back-dooring the article described “didn’t make sense”.

Show notes

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies - Bloomberg

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