> the renewed focus just seems a little suspicious to me at a time when our government is trying to distract us from possible Russian interference in our election
That might be a reasonable suspicion if Bloomberg were a pro-Trump publication. It is anything but. Its editorials and opinion pages bash the current administration almost daily, and there have been rumors recently that Michael Bloomberg is preparing to sell his stake in order to run for president in 2020 (after deciding not to run in 2016 because that could have split the opposition to Trump).
I think if you dangle government sources, even "anonymous" ones, in front of a reporter like Jordan Robertson, you are gonna get a story, regardless of the editorial slant of the paper.
Of course, my crazy conspiracy story doesn't explain Robertson's industry sources. It could be, as others have said, a misunderstanding (I mean, we all know IPMI is run through with exploits; no conspiracy there. You just don't put your IPMI on an untrusted network. ) and it doesn't explain his continuing to stand with the story even after the giant and poorly controlled security community has been set to tearing apart motherboards.
Really, that last bit points to... if not incompetence, at least to him not understanding how this sort of thing works.
That might be a reasonable suspicion if Bloomberg were a pro-Trump publication. It is anything but. Its editorials and opinion pages bash the current administration almost daily, and there have been rumors recently that Michael Bloomberg is preparing to sell his stake in order to run for president in 2020 (after deciding not to run in 2016 because that could have split the opposition to Trump).