Well, it's a widely placed story in every newspaper. On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 11:16 AM David P. Reed <[email protected]> wrote: > > The NYTimes has become a mouthpiece for those who want to see China as the > new evil empire. Recent pieces by David Sanger have hyped the idea that the > US has a "5G Gap" and that China (Huawei) will threaten to conquer the world > with 5G superiority, so we should be vigilantly opposing Huawei. > > > > Worth noting that Cisco, ALU, ... are not any better than Huawei appears to > be in these matters. But they aren't getting headlines in the NYTimes. > > > > Remember, Judith Miller wrote NYTimes headlines based on "leaks from senior > intelligence officials" that Saddam Hussein was on the verge of deploying > dirty bombs, nuclear missiles and biowarfare agents. > > > > Recently, Bloomberg got scammed by "leaks from senior intelligence officials" > that Supermicro (Chinese) had built and sold server motherboards that had > special chips soldered into them that didn't belong there [the stories were > completely debunked by the companies supposedly targeted]. > > > > Personally, I think the cynical fearmongering here does the legitimate > security engineering community no good at all. It's just more "wag the dog" > psyops, designed to let all the pseudo-security-experts take over the story > and get their 15 minutes in the headlines. > > > > The Qualcomms and Ciscos of the US are happy to get the USG to help scare > countries off of Chinese brandnames. But the open secret is that Qualcomm and > Cisco's systems are designed and made in China, too. There's no US > manufacturing of switches, and precious few entirely American hardware design > centers, either. > > > > So be a little skeptical. Check the story behind the story. Don't believe > stories based on "intelligence agency" leaks. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Dave Taht" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2019 1:55pm > To: "cerowrt-devel" <[email protected]>, "bloat" > <[email protected]> > Subject: [Cerowrt-devel] plenty of huawei in the news today > > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/technology/huawei-security-british-report.html > > -- > > Dave Täht > CTO, TekLibre, LLC > http://www.teklibre.com > Tel: 1-831-205-9740 > _______________________________________________ > Cerowrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
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