In the news currently is a potentially far-reaching scandal centred around the addition of a tiny surveillance chip into certain Supermicro server motherboards. Bloomberg Businessweek has broken a story blowing the whistle on a ‘secret’ FBI investigation that’s been running for a couple of years and implications that similar discoveries made but not publicised by both Apple and Amazon in 2015 led both companies to cease trading with SuperMicro and allegedly remove SuperMicro hardware from their datacentres.