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On 27 July 2017 at 18:00, Noel Butler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27/07/2017 17:43, Jonathan Brewer wrote: > > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 at 12:37, Mark Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A submarine cable connecting Sydney to the Solomon Islands is being >> refused a landing permit in Sydney because it's being built by Huawei. >> >> http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/ >> australia-refuses-to-connect-to-undersea-cable-built-by- >> chinese-company-20170726-gxj9bf.html >> >> So, uh, don't do that then, hey? >> >> > > You mean don't land in Australia, right? > > We've got plenty of Huawei in New Zealand networks, including our UFB > network. (That's the one I get 1000/500 fibre service from for about AUD > $110/month). Guess what? It works. And it doesn't come with any more > spyware than Cisco or Juniper. > > What's the Australian government's problem? Is it protectionism? Racism? > Something else? > > -JB > > > They are quite happy for NSA and GCHQ to know our every moves it seems, > but not the CSS > > I'd be sure to find more spyware in cisco and other USA gear, than in > Huawei's. > > Besides, Washington probably told them not to trust them, but in same > breath say "trust us with our spyware" yeah right, the entire USA govt is > like a bad rerun of the apprentice. > -- > > Kind Regards, > > Noel Butler > This Email, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged > information, therefore remains confidential and subject to copyright > protected under international law. You may not disseminate, discuss, or > reveal, any part, to anyone, without the authors express written authority > to do so. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender > then delete all copies of this message including attachments, immediately. > Confidentiality, copyright, and legal privilege are not waived or lost by > reason of the mistaken delivery of this message. Only PDF > <http://www.adobe.com/> and ODF > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument> documents accepted, please do > not send proprietary formatted documents > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > >
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