British security services speak out over claims China planted tiny chips in Apple and Amazon computers

British security services have spoken out about claims that China managed to plant tiny chips in computers that made their way across the US. The bombshell report came from Bloomberg News this week and alleged that special agents in the People's Liberation Army had dropped tiny components into computer hardware before it left the country. It would eventually go on to be used by companies including Amazon, Apple and many others, as well as the US defence establishment. Such a hack would allow spies to look in on messages being sent across Apple's cloud services, for instance, and intercept messages as soon as they are sent. And a hardware breakthrough of that kind would mark a step change in the kind of hacks that are possible, since they could not be easily found or fixed.