Hmmmmm...
Huawei is just the latest iteration of Chinese efforts to co-op western
technology...
Remember this blast from the past?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/standards/does-china-have-the-best-digital-television-standard-on-the-planet
The United States established its national standard for terrestrial
broadcasts of high-definition digital television, known as ATSC (for Advanced
Television Systems Committee), in 1996. The European Union settled on its
standard, Digital Video Broadcast-Terrestrial, or DVB-T, in 1997. Japan
developed its Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T)
in the 1980s and adopted it in 2003. But China just finalized its digital
television standard in late 2006, beginning transmission with last summer’s
Beijing Olympics.
If you worked in IT sales, can you image how difficult your life would be if
your foreign customers assumed that the hardware you sold them had backdoors
to let the U.S. government spy on them at will?
That's not a hypothetical question.
Incredible as it seems, routers built for export by Cisco (and probably other
companies) are routinely intercepted without Cisco's knowledge by the
National Security Agency and equipped with hidden surveillance tools. We know
this because it's one of the new details of the spy agency's vast data
gathering programs revealed in "No Place to Hide," a just-published book by
Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald, of course, is the journalist who broke the story
of Edward Snowden, the one-time NSA employee who has leaked thousands of
secret documents.
On May 25, 2019, at 12:42 PM, Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/technology/huawei-rural-wireless-service.html
Many small carriers depend on inexpensive equipment from the Chinese company.
Now they must rethink expansion plans, and perhaps replace existing gear.
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