> Talk is cheap, show me the code/server/chip if they ever exist.
Bloomberg is a journalism organization. They'll report and cross-check testimony that there's been a chemical weapons attack in Syria, but they're not going to go there to collect samples of the chemicals. They aren't going to have "the code/server/chip" to show you, and they shouldn't be expected to.
Furthermore, the people who talked to Bloomberg who may have access to the "code/server/chip" are anonymous and may not be able to have too many details released publicly without compromising their identities. Bloomberg may have more details than they have reported, but be unable to release them publicly while respecting their sources' confidence.
Bloomberg wouldn’t, however publish a story about a chemical attack based on an anonymous source. They’d have independently verifiable evidence and not just some dude saying so.
> They’d have independently verifiable evidence and not just some dude saying so.
This is where you misunderstand. An anonymous source isn't "just some dude" who called in "saying so." Journalists, in the case Bloomberg, knows exactly who their "anonymous" sources are.
Bloomberg is a journalism organization. They'll report and cross-check testimony that there's been a chemical weapons attack in Syria, but they're not going to go there to collect samples of the chemicals. They aren't going to have "the code/server/chip" to show you, and they shouldn't be expected to.
Furthermore, the people who talked to Bloomberg who may have access to the "code/server/chip" are anonymous and may not be able to have too many details released publicly without compromising their identities. Bloomberg may have more details than they have reported, but be unable to release them publicly while respecting their sources' confidence.