Re:Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant
by User23 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @09:42PM
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On the plus side, this means there's an opportunity for the US to commit some tit for tat industrial espionage to catch up.
Re:Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant
by parineum on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @09:33PM
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>In that light, Huawei equipment that the Chinese government tries to make as immune to the 5 Eyes as possible may actually be preferable.
Unless you're contributing to or benefitting from that 5 eyes intel.
Our governments aren't as averse to these things as you and I are.
https://www.lightreading.com/mobile/5g/bts-mcrae-huawei-is-t...
For Europeans, they have to balance the possibility of Chinese espionage against the certainty that the US and UK are already doing it:
* https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/02/wikileaks-us-s...
* https://theintercept.com/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-insid...
In that light, Huawei equipment that the Chinese government tries to make as immune to the 5 Eyes as possible may actually be preferable.
Granted, neither Nokia nor Ericsson are US companies or subject to direct US pressure the way, say, Lucent would have been, or Cisco is, but the US has suborned equipment makers in neutral countries before, as with Crypto AG:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33676028