The denials of the Bloomberg story are interesting, but consider that if (a) the attack wasn't early supply chain, but interdiction and (b) the targets were government/military and not commercial, it'd be ordinary spying (an embarrassment for the US) rather than exceptional.
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That is, the shoddy parts of the story (the supply chain compromise) and the parts that have been denied (Apple and Amazon's involvement) are the parts that turn it from an embarrassing failure by the US to China doing something uniquely nefarious (as far as spying goes).
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So it could be that the DoD got hacked by China (using hardware interdiction) but added these additional claims to paint it as China doing something beyond regular intelligence work (i.e., what the US does), knowing that nobody will care about the details in the long-run.
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And let's be honest, if it turns out that SOME of the details of the story were wrong, it won't matter. Everyone will still cite the claims in the original story. That's how this stuff works.
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We also know from the Trump FBI probe that leaking to the press then taking action based on planted press reports is a tool for the IC
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