Trump Moves to Ban Foreign Telecom Gear, Targeting Huawei and China
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#2This in addition to all the "security" advisories to other countries seems like a move to curb their economic growth more than anything.
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#3This in addition to all the "security" advisories to other countries seems like a move to curb their economic growth more than anything.
For once in 2 years though the current US admin is right IMHO. China is not an ally, Russia is not an ally. Best case they're semi-neutral, worst case they're the next enemy.
China especially has been playing the ultra-long game by slowly getting more and more countries under their dependence, buying up assets left and right and where that didn't help resorting to industrial espionage.
The problem that the telco operators have is that there is (thanks to Chinese dumping, did I mention they are playing a long game) next to no viable competition in either the US or the expanded NATO space - Europe has Ericsson and Nokia which are expensive and the US has Cisco which is expensive and crops up with at least one real backdoor a month.
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#4The fear mongering against Huawei becomes really interesting when you look at all the "sorry, we forgot about that unintentional access possibility" incidents in Cisco gear that might either be back doors or lousy QA leading to security problems.
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#5This in addition to all the "security" advisories to other countries seems like a move to curb their economic growth more than anything.
I don't doubt it, but at least some security is a side effect of that.
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#6What is this gonna mean for my OnePlus
Re: Trump Moves to Ban Foreign Telecom Gear, Targeting Huawei and China
#7This in addition to all the "security" advisories to other countries seems like a move to curb their economic growth more than anything.
For once in 2 years though the current US admin is right IMHO. China is not an ally, Russia is not an ally. Best case they're semi-neutral, worst case they're the next enemy. China especially has been playing the ultra-long game by slowly getting more and more countries under their dependence, buying up assets left and right and where that didn't help resorting to industrial espionage. The problem that the telco oper…
Are hardware vulnerabilities so difficult to find and insidious that no amount of auditing and investigation by the US govt will ever be sufficient?
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#8What is this gonna mean for my OnePlus
Nothing, unless your cellphone is part of the infrastructure of a telecom company.
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#9The fear mongering against Huawei becomes really interesting when you look at all the "sorry, we forgot about that unintentional access possibility" incidents in Cisco gear that might either be back doors or lousy QA leading to security problems.
All that shows is gee, it really can and really does happen.
Which is a stronger argument, not weaker for suspicious treatment of Huawei by Western governments.
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#10This in addition to all the "security" advisories to other countries seems like a move to curb their economic growth more than anything.
For once in 2 years though the current US admin is right IMHO. China is not an ally, Russia is not an ally. Best case they're semi-neutral, worst case they're the next enemy. China especially has been playing the ultra-long game by slowly getting more and more countries under their dependence, buying up assets left and right and where that didn't help resorting to industrial espionage. The problem that the telco oper…
I agree, to a point. I'm not entirely opposed to Trump (or entirely in favor) but it seems if we're going to be stuck playing economic realpolitik with a country as nationalized as China this is a perfectly reasonable step. The US and its allies have not been particularly good stewards with the power they've held over the world for the last ~70+ years, but I shudder to think of what a Chinese controlled network backbone would do to things.
You can argue the West doesn't behave as well as it should on the world stage, but Western ideology seems to be the best hope we have for an eventual egalitarian future, although the human cost will still be high. The further we get from authoritarianism, be it left or right, the better, in my opinion.