**The Great Apple and Amazon Web Services Spy Chip Scandal: A Cautionary Tale**

I have to admit, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the recent reports claiming that Chinese spy chips had been installed on servers used by Apple and Amazon Web Services. The news sent shockwaves through the tech industry, with many people wondering how such a serious breach could have gone undetected for so long. But as is often the case in these situations, things are not quite as simple as they seem.

According to reports, this alleged incident was previously uncovered in 2016, and it's claimed that an infected driver on a single super micro server in one of Apple's labs was discovered. However, the story goes that this one-time event was determined to be accidental rather than a targeted attack against either company. Amazon Web Services also strongly denied these claims, saying that they found no evidence to support them.

But there has been an update to this story, and I'm glad we can talk about it now. According to Engadget, a third-party security team known as NAR della and company has found no evidence of Chinese spy chips or super micro servers used by Apple. This seems to some to nullify the claims made in the Bloomberg report that Chinese spy chips put the security of Apple's and Amazon's servers at risk.

What concerns me about this whole situation is the potential for massive violations that could affect billions of people worldwide, simply because one country is spying on private enterprises. I'm not saying that they actually did this, but it's a disturbing thought nonetheless. When something like this is reported on, we need to be done in a way that's transparent and verifiable. Transparency and verifiability mean that if I tell you something as true as someone in the tech news space, hopefully it's presented in such a way or with information that can be verified by others.

But what's not happening here is transparency and verifiability. We're being told that a third-party auditing team did an investigation, but who is this team? I had to dig for that information, and while it turns out to be NAR della and company, which lends some credibility to it because they were willing to put their reputation on the line, we don't know the terms of this audit. How was it investigated? Why isn't there more talk about it? Why aren't government agencies putting teams together to investigate this further?

The lack of transparency and verifiability in this situation is what's most disturbing to me. It's not just a matter of "oh, they found nothing," which doesn't help anyone. What we need to know is how this happened, who was involved, and what steps are being taken to prevent it from happening again. And that's not something that can be simply done by a single news outlet or tech company.

**The Huawei Nova 4: A Phone with a Circular Camera Cutout**

But enough about the spy chip scandal for now. Let's talk about something more lighthearted – the leaks surrounding the Huawei Nova 4. The leaks show off the circular camera cutout that we've come to know and salivate over. It eliminates the need for the dreaded notch, which has been a thorn in the side of phone designers for years.

However, it's worth noting that the chins bezels are still slightly larger than the sides and top. This is reportedly because the chin is where the sensors and antennas live, with room up top for an earpiece but not much else. The back of the Nova 4 features a triple camera setup and fingerprint sensor.

The most expensive variant of the Nova 4, reportedly, features a 48-megapixel primary camera. Less expensive variants make do with a 20-megapixel main sensor elsewhere on the phone. The form factor is said to feature a six-point-four-inch display with Full HD+ resolution and 19:25:9 aspect ratio. A twenty-five megapixel selfie camera is also part of the package.

The Nova 4 might support 18-watt wired fast charging, although details are still sketchy at this point. The phone is expected to launch just a few days from now on December 17th in China.

**Ops Genie: The Unsung Hero of Incident Management**

But what about something more practical and less dramatic? Let's talk about Ops Genie, our beloved sponsor today. Ops Genie helps us minimize downtime, which is critical for our customer experience. It empowers developers and operations teams to plan for service disruptions and stay in control during incidents.

Ops Genie notifies all the right people through a smart combination of scheduling and escalation passes that take into account things like time zones and holidays. It allows for deep flexibility and how and when and where alerts are deployed. And it's supported by over 200 integrations, which makes it a powerful tool in any operations team.

The best part is that Ops Genie can help prevent incidents from happening in the first place. By planning ahead and anticipating potential issues, teams can take steps to mitigate them before they become major problems. This is something that every company should be doing, regardless of their size or industry.

So there you have it – a brief look at the spy chip scandal and the Huawei Nova 4. But more importantly, let's talk about Ops Genie and how it can help your team stay ahead of the game when it comes to incident management.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyou know how sometimes you know you're being lied to you don't know how and you may not know why but you know something just something just smells off then that's how I kind of feel today and I wanted to go back and cover news that's four or five days old but my goodness we got a clear summer bloomberg published a very dangerous report regarding the security of data centers belonging to both Amazon and Apple the report alleges that the data centers Hardware was purchased from a Chinese company called Super Micro and it included Chinese spy chips that put the security of the networks at risk including of course all the data flowing through Amazon and Apple servers according to the Bloomberg report Chinese spies could have used the chips to monitor the company's information as it passed through its network this could have included intellectual property information trade secrets among other things both Amazon and Apple vehemently denied these reports Apple which issued a strongly worded statement had this to say we are deeply disappointed that in their dealings with us Bloomberg reporters have not been open to the possibility that they or their sources might be wrong or misinformed our best guess is that they are confusing their story whether previously reported 2016 incident in which we discovered an infected driver on a single super micro server in one of our labs this one time event was determined to be accidental and not a targeted attack against Apple Amazon Web Services also strongly denied these claims saying that they were inaccurate saying that they found no evidence to support these claims but there has been an update to this and we got to talk about it according to Engadget a third party security team found no evidence of Chinese spy chips and super micro servers used by Apple this seems to some to nullify claims made in the Bloomberg report that Chinese spy chips put the security of Apple's and Amazon's servers at risk you see this is what concerns me so much and it really should I think concern you too when we are talking about potentially massive violations that affects billions of people half the planet at least when you're talking about potentially I'm not saying that they actually did this but one country spying on private enterprises that affect so many people when this is reported on we needs to be done in a way that's transparent and verifiable transparent and verifiable meaning that if I tell you something as true as someone in the tech news space hopefully it's I'm saying it in such a way or I'm giving you the information that you can verify that you can check up for yourself or that you can judge for yourself but that's not what's happening here we're being told that a third party auditing team did an investigation well who is that team I had to dig for that information it turns out to be NAR della and company which lends some credibility to it because they were willing to put their reputation on the line so there is that I got to give him that but we don't know the terms of this audit how was it investigated why is there no more talk about it why isn't there a government agency putting a team in there to investigate that that would lend more credibility to it because this is some scary scary stuff these massive companies like Apple and Amazon are hugely incentivized and motivated to hide information like this to fight it I'm not saying this is actually happening maybe it is maybe it is it that's the problem we don't have enough information to know if this is legitimate or not and that is not acceptable and when you look across the news all over the place in tech news - you get little bits of information and you know what's happening when they do that your narrative your thoughts your views on a really important topic are being manipulated you're not allowed to judge for yourself what's really going on because you're not given enough information and that upsets me and it should upset you - what do you think about it let me know in the comments below or on Twitter boom okay now that I've calmed down a bit let's talk about something totally frivolous leaks then I'm talking about the huawei Nova four and the leaks here show off the circular camera cutout that we've come to know and salivate over the cutter eliminates the need for the dreaded notch though you'll notice that the chins bezels are still slightly larger than the side and top that's because the chin is presumably where the sensors and the antennas live there's room up top for an earpiece but not much else around the back is a triple camera setup and fingerprint sensor the most expensive Nova for reportedly features a 48 megapixel primary camera the less expensive variants reportedly make do with a 20 megapixel main sensor elsewhere the Nova form reportedly features a six point four inch display with Full HD plus resolution and 19:25 9 aspect ratio a twenty five megapixel selfie camera Huawei is cure a 90-70 processor eight gigabytes of RAM 128 gigabytes of storage and a 3750 milliamp hour battery the Nova four might support 18 watt wired fast charging it is expected that the Nova four will launch just a few days from now on December 17th in China you know what software starts do things it's not supposed to do who solves those problems it's the unsung heroes our developer teams in fact it's called incident management and our beloved sponsor today ops genie is just for them op genie helps us minimize downtime which is critical for our customer experience ops genie empowers devs and ops teams to plan for service disruptions and stay in control during incidents it helps notify all the right people through a smart combination of scheduling an escalation pass that take into account things like time zones and holidays it allows for deep flexibility and how and when and where alerts are deployed and supported by over 200 integrations with ops genie your next incident doesn't stand a chance go to ops genie comm and sign up to get a free company account and add up to five team members that's ops genie comm never miss a critical it alert again with ops genie bonsoiryou know how sometimes you know you're being lied to you don't know how and you may not know why but you know something just something just smells off then that's how I kind of feel today and I wanted to go back and cover news that's four or five days old but my goodness we got a clear summer bloomberg published a very dangerous report regarding the security of data centers belonging to both Amazon and Apple the report alleges that the data centers Hardware was purchased from a Chinese company called Super Micro and it included Chinese spy chips that put the security of the networks at risk including of course all the data flowing through Amazon and Apple servers according to the Bloomberg report Chinese spies could have used the chips to monitor the company's information as it passed through its network this could have included intellectual property information trade secrets among other things both Amazon and Apple vehemently denied these reports Apple which issued a strongly worded statement had this to say we are deeply disappointed that in their dealings with us Bloomberg reporters have not been open to the possibility that they or their sources might be wrong or misinformed our best guess is that they are confusing their story whether previously reported 2016 incident in which we discovered an infected driver on a single super micro server in one of our labs this one time event was determined to be accidental and not a targeted attack against Apple Amazon Web Services also strongly denied these claims saying that they were inaccurate saying that they found no evidence to support these claims but there has been an update to this and we got to talk about it according to Engadget a third party security team found no evidence of Chinese spy chips and super micro servers used by Apple this seems to some to nullify claims made in the Bloomberg report that Chinese spy chips put the security of Apple's and Amazon's servers at risk you see this is what concerns me so much and it really should I think concern you too when we are talking about potentially massive violations that affects billions of people half the planet at least when you're talking about potentially I'm not saying that they actually did this but one country spying on private enterprises that affect so many people when this is reported on we needs to be done in a way that's transparent and verifiable transparent and verifiable meaning that if I tell you something as true as someone in the tech news space hopefully it's I'm saying it in such a way or I'm giving you the information that you can verify that you can check up for yourself or that you can judge for yourself but that's not what's happening here we're being told that a third party auditing team did an investigation well who is that team I had to dig for that information it turns out to be NAR della and company which lends some credibility to it because they were willing to put their reputation on the line so there is that I got to give him that but we don't know the terms of this audit how was it investigated why is there no more talk about it why isn't there a government agency putting a team in there to investigate that that would lend more credibility to it because this is some scary scary stuff these massive companies like Apple and Amazon are hugely incentivized and motivated to hide information like this to fight it I'm not saying this is actually happening maybe it is maybe it is it that's the problem we don't have enough information to know if this is legitimate or not and that is not acceptable and when you look across the news all over the place in tech news - you get little bits of information and you know what's happening when they do that your narrative your thoughts your views on a really important topic are being manipulated you're not allowed to judge for yourself what's really going on because you're not given enough information and that upsets me and it should upset you - what do you think about it let me know in the comments below or on Twitter boom okay now that I've calmed down a bit let's talk about something totally frivolous leaks then I'm talking about the huawei Nova four and the leaks here show off the circular camera cutout that we've come to know and salivate over the cutter eliminates the need for the dreaded notch though you'll notice that the chins bezels are still slightly larger than the side and top that's because the chin is presumably where the sensors and the antennas live there's room up top for an earpiece but not much else around the back is a triple camera setup and fingerprint sensor the most expensive Nova for reportedly features a 48 megapixel primary camera the less expensive variants reportedly make do with a 20 megapixel main sensor elsewhere the Nova form reportedly features a six point four inch display with Full HD plus resolution and 19:25 9 aspect ratio a twenty five megapixel selfie camera Huawei is cure a 90-70 processor eight gigabytes of RAM 128 gigabytes of storage and a 3750 milliamp hour battery the Nova four might support 18 watt wired fast charging it is expected that the Nova four will launch just a few days from now on December 17th in China you know what software starts do things it's not supposed to do who solves those problems it's the unsung heroes our developer teams in fact it's called incident management and our beloved sponsor today ops genie is just for them op genie helps us minimize downtime which is critical for our customer experience ops genie empowers devs and ops teams to plan for service disruptions and stay in control during incidents it helps notify all the right people through a smart combination of scheduling an escalation pass that take into account things like time zones and holidays it allows for deep flexibility and how and when and where alerts are deployed and supported by over 200 integrations with ops genie your next incident doesn't stand a chance go to ops genie comm and sign up to get a free company account and add up to five team members that's ops genie comm never miss a critical it alert again with ops genie bonsoir\n"