congratulations on your journalism with rochester and mykal riley.ars ago, three years ago when these two guys walked in your office and said this is happening? joel: we've been working on the story for more than a year and put the bar at an incredibly high level and they rose to it. the main thing that we really wanted to address with this story is that consumers, most of america, most of the world is familiar with something called software hacking, services with equinox and yahoo!, this is different and far more troubling because it's a hardware hack. and using a little tiny chip implanted in china during manufacturing of supermicro mother boards they were actually able to reach some of the biggest u.s. companies. tom: within the 30 companies, amazon and apple are the big guys on the block, there's the idea what about our military? senator warren of virginia and the dakotas, say wait a minute, what does the pentagon know? jordan said earlier we really don't know. is that the next order question, are these microchips in our government and on our war