Apple may be building its own servers to make certain that no one is “snooping.”

Citing a report from The Information, 9to5Mac says that Apple is convinced that the servers it receives from third-party entities have been “intercepted during shipping.”

The cited report (paywalled) also says that the Cupertino-based company believes that “additional chips and firmware” are integrated into these servers by unidentified third parties to make these susceptible to illegal access.

“At one point, Apple even assigned people to take photographs of motherboards and annotate the function of each chip, explaining why it was supposed to be there,” says the report, as quoted by 9to5Mac.

As such, Apple thinks that developing its own servers fitted with motherboards it built would be the most efficient strategy for the company to veer away from “unauthorized snooping” by means of added chips plus firmware.

On top of that, the report also put in further details regarding the infrastructure projects of Apple, saying that the firm has actually “at least six” cloud infrastructure projects in the pipeline.

The projects include what was previously reported by VentureBeat a few days ago suggesting that Apple is presently baking its “Project McQueen” that is aimed to develop the company’s very own data storage systems.

The latest report says that Apple’s other projects include creating its own networking equipment, servers and systems that could aid developers in powering their apps down the road.

This purported latest move from Apple to build its own servers appears to be reasonable, given the most recent controversy on the San Bernardino Apple iPhone case plus encryption on iDevices.

In the meantime, another report that recently cropped up claims that Apple could also be moving in another direction. Apple has reportedly signed an agreement to host a few of its iCloud services with Google Cloud Platform.

Since nothing is official, and given that we haven’t heard any confirmation yet from Apple regarding this rumor, it is then wise to take this story with a considerable amount of salt.

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