[wil421]

I can see where the Navy/Military/Government could compartmentalize a hack like this. How could a company like Apple or Amazon keep this under wraps? How could they keep the knowledge of such a hack within the TS/SCI employees?

[smurfysmurf]

The cleared department is handled the same way as in the military in terms of security. Amazon has SCIF's etc. So unless a disgruntled employee steps forward who doesn't care about there life, I imagine its easily contained (and symptoms of an employee being disgruntled are highly monitored when they hold a clearance)

[wil421]

I’m thinking about the non cleared data center folk, the sys admins and developers who use the servers for their applications.

How do a bunch of Supermicro servers vanish wintout anyone noticing? I’d expect quite a few people would be involved that do not have any clearances. Apple is known for their secrecy but a few other companies named are not.

[user5994461]

At the scale their datacenter are, they must be replacing a full rack of servers every single day, just to follow a standard 3 years depreciation policy.

Servers practically vanish every single day. Add a few more supermicro and it's not even noticeable. Business as usual.

[darawk]

Maybe they didn't remove them.

[mabbo]

I knew a dozen people working on Amazon Go for like 4 years before it launched. Not one person leaked, even internally, what the hell they were building. Just that it was awesome and I should come join their team.

Somehow, Amazon is really good at keeping secrets.

[kevin_thibedeau]

1) Everybody involved has agreed to keep secrets.

2) You compartmentalize everyone so nobody has the complete picture.

[dubya123]

If it is classified and a cleared employee at Amazon/Apple/etc. blabbled there would be life altering consequences for them.

[creeble]

Then there will be? As someone apparently/allegedly blabbed to Bloomberg?

I say again to Bloomberg: picture (x-Ray) or it didn't happen.

[smokeyj]

Very easily, that's how https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Stamos#Yahoo!

[jtbayly]

Except they didn't keep it wrapped, did they? And people all the way to the CEO knew about it.

[smokeyj]

Point being it started with the CEO.. At what point do you suspect the publicist of all people was clued in? Absolutely never.