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The compromised server saga continues.

I told you last week a Bloomberg's assertion

that servers at roughly 30 companies, including Apple and

Amazon, had been compromised by the Chinese government.

I also told you of Apple and Amazon denying the parts of the Bloomberg piece that said that they knew anything about compromised servers.

Now Apple's gone all Phineas and Ferb and kicked it up a notch.

Mac Rumor says Apple's top security dude has sent a letter to the US Congress saying,

Seriously, we did not find anything like the things Bloomberg says we found.

In a letter to both the House and Senate Commerce Committees,

Apple VP for Information Security, George Stathicopolis wrote, Apple's proprietary security tools are continually scanning for precisely this kind of outbound

traffic as it indicates the existence of malware or other malicious activity, nothing was ever found.

At least two government agencies are on Apple's side in the matter or they're not on

Bloomberg's side anyway.

A piece from N-Gadgett says both the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

and the UK's National Cybersecurity Center

say they see no reason to not believe Apple and Amazon.

This doesn't completely rule out a future investigation according to End Gadget, but the agencies aren't about to hop on the case.

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