And what about Amazon and Apple's denial will be found technically incorrect in a few years.
EDIT: to the downvoters, its easy to play this game, Apple makes a large amount of very specific denials.
Each time, we have conducted rigorous internal
investigations based on their inquiries and each
time we have found absolutely no evidence to support
any of them.
Apple has never found malicious chips, “hardware
manipulations” or vulnerabilities purposely planted
in any server. Apple never had any contact with the FBI
or any other agency about such an incident. We are not
aware of any investigation by the FBI, nor are our
contacts in law enforcement.
What about investigations and law enforcement contacts via a third party (perhaps a specialized hardware security firm? )
Our best guess is that they are confusing their story
with a previously-reported 2016 incident in which we
discovered an infected driver on a single Super Micro
server in one of our labs.
You mean the story they explicitly denied with similar strength (and wiggle room to boot when the truth came out)
Apple is deeply committed to protecting the privacy and
security of our customers and the data we store. We are
constantly monitoring for any attacks on our systems,
working closely with vendors and regularly checking
equipment for malware. We’re not aware of any data being
transmitted to an unauthorized party nor was any
infected firmware found on the servers purchased from
this vendor.
These denials match up exactly with what was in the leaked documents. Greenwald and Snowden, out of incompetence, made a bunch of unsubstantiated accusations that were not supported by the documents that the companies denied.
My understanding is that there wasn’t involvement from google, that data was extracted without their knowledge from links between data centers.