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Apple is not "playing" with its own data. The company

Feb. 5, 2019 by James Ashley

Apple is not "playing" with its own data. The company has not announced any plans to sell chips to any of its customers, even for customers who have an Apple ID. Apple also did not respond to a request from Ars for comment. If companies are indeed selling sensitive data to Chinese government agencies, they should be able to do so without fear of being sued. And the fact that Apple is claiming that Chinese authorities were using these chips, and not just the data centers of its own customers, means that Apple's products are safer and more reliable.

As long as the Chinese government continues to use these data centers under questionable pretenses, the fact that the government is targeting its own customers is a clear and present danger.

The original piece was updated to note that the Chinese government has denied having been exploiting vulnerabilities in Apple's devices. The company has clarified that it is using "the most advanced software" available and said that it is "not at war with China."Image copyright AFP Image caption The BBC has contacted the minister of defence for defence, where the defence minister has been in touch on the situation

US President Barack Obama has dismissed claims there has been a missile attack during a visit to South Korea, after reports said it had been fired from the sky.

South Korea's defence minister, Ri Su-byong, said he did not "know in detail" what the attack was.

"There's nothing to report," he said.

President Barack Obama has been in touch with the defence minister and is in Seoul for a meeting of ministers.

Mr Obama, who held talks with Kim Jong-un in January over relations with North Korea, said the North was "doing very worrying things" and called for the United States and its allies to "go to war" with it.

Image copyright Reuters Image caption South Korea's defence ministry said there was the "very worrying possibility" that it had been fired from the sky

"The president is very concerned about the possibility that this was the first time that the North fired a missile over our territory and it may have been launched into our country," Mr Obama said.

"We need to have a comprehensive national security response that does not rely on our military capabilities in order to avoid any sort of unintended consequences. We need to make sure that those consequences do not occur. It's absolutely frightening."

Earlier this month, North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test in two weeks.