Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei

Re:Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned sto... by tivert on Thursday April 20, 2023 @10:23AM (#35640455)

> Huawei even let the UK secret service inspect Huawei networking gear, e.g. [1, 2, 3]. They only found badly written software, which is hardly unusual.

Which, by the way, is the perfect cover for a backdoor, because it's deniable.

Furthermore, even if you're looking for a back door, there's no guarantee you were actually looking in the right place (for an example, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device))

> A much more likely explanation for the US sanction on Huawei is simply anti-competitive measures.

No, it's 100% geopolitical maneuvering. IIRC, US companies don't even sell competing equipment in many of the relevant areas. You don't need "evidence" of a backdoor in order to distrust something.

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Re:Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned sto... by mytailorisrich on Thursday April 20, 2023 @10:33AM (#35640632)

'If you want to kill your dog, accuse him of having rabies.' (French proverb)

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Re:Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned sto... by tivert on Thursday April 20, 2023 @10:37AM (#35640727)

"Don't let the fox guard the henhouse." (English proverb)

Since we're trading proverbs.

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Re:Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned sto... by kneebonian on Thursday April 20, 2023 @10:55AM (#35641061)

"They pretend to pay us we pretend to work" (Soviet proverb)

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Re:Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned sto... by tivert on Thursday April 20, 2023 @12:08PM (#35642195)

That's is a proverb, just not a very apropos one.

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Re:Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned sto... by cscurmudgeon on Thursday April 20, 2023 @10:53AM (#35641017)

Tell me how this doesn't apply to China banning US companies.

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