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Interesting drama around Apple's own cloud hosting aspirations.
"And it worries that some of the equipment and cloud services it buys has been compromised by vendors who have agreed to put "back door" technology for government spying, according to a report from The Information's Amir Efrati and Steve Nellis."
"Still, Apple is motivated to design build its own hardware, the same as Google and Amazon does, and run it on its own for one pretty scary reason: security. It suspects that the servers it has been ordering from others are being captured during shipping, and backdoors added to them that will make them susceptible to being hacked."
[ Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-worried-about-spy-tech-in-servers-it-buys-2016-3 ]
So for now, Apple continues to use the infrastructure of competitors Amazon and Microsoft to run their online services.
Very unsound. Wouldn't it be more prudent for Apple to in-source computing / hardware development and manufacturing? Of course, also produce the hardware within the United States and under their strict controls with paid senior staff on-location and in place?
This is the world that cheap has created. Instead they 'trust' a Taiwan company like Quanta Computer who produces a ton of hardware for Amazon and Google and who manufactures quite a bit in China (which creates own multitude of problems on human rights, environment, workers rights, and of course foreign espionage).
"And it worries that some of the equipment and cloud services it buys has been compromised by vendors who have agreed to put "back door" technology for government spying, according to a report from The Information's Amir Efrati and Steve Nellis."
"Still, Apple is motivated to design build its own hardware, the same as Google and Amazon does, and run it on its own for one pretty scary reason: security. It suspects that the servers it has been ordering from others are being captured during shipping, and backdoors added to them that will make them susceptible to being hacked."
[ Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-worried-about-spy-tech-in-servers-it-buys-2016-3 ]
So for now, Apple continues to use the infrastructure of competitors Amazon and Microsoft to run their online services.
Very unsound. Wouldn't it be more prudent for Apple to in-source computing / hardware development and manufacturing? Of course, also produce the hardware within the United States and under their strict controls with paid senior staff on-location and in place?
This is the world that cheap has created. Instead they 'trust' a Taiwan company like Quanta Computer who produces a ton of hardware for Amazon and Google and who manufactures quite a bit in China (which creates own multitude of problems on human rights, environment, workers rights, and of course foreign espionage).
