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But no more. At long last, that system, the Strategic Automated Command and Control System or SACCS, has dumped the floppy disk, moving to a “highly-secure solid state digital storage solution”

Did SuperMicro make the board?

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That story made a big splash but was never proven. Bloomberg claimed sources it conveniently couldn't reveal. I'm just as suspicious of China as the next guy, and they've probably got something in the supply chain, but probably not that. Besides, a ME or BMC 0day does the job just as well with very little risk.

Did SuperMicro make the board?

Suppose for the moment that they did. Surely you're not going to stake your reputation on an unconfirmed rumor from Bloomberg for which no single shred of hard evidence (or evidence at all, frankly) was ever offered, because that would just be silly. So what's your point?

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