Ah, I see, simply being headquartered in China is enough to make them an arm of the Chinese government. That's some powerful projection. I mean, unlike the cas

Ah, I see, simply being headquartered in China is enough to make them an arm of the Chinese government. That's some powerful projection. I mean, unlike the case with Huawei, there is extensive hard evidence of American telecom companies deliberately compromising their hardware to facilitate American spying. We know that the American government routinely intercepts American telecom equipment and compromises it [1]. We know that the NSA seems to conveniently have plenty of zero-days into Cisco hardware [2]. We know that all American ISPs and all major American technology companies provide the NSA with direct feeds for all their communication [3, 4]. So, it actually would be fair to say that all American technology and communication companies are under the complete control of the US government. But the strange thing is that despite numerous investigations by multiple intelligence agencies and NGO nobody has ever found any of the millions of devices Huawei exports each year to be compromised. But the less evidence that's found the more Americans insist Huawei's technology can't be trusted. There's never any evidence provided and, remarkably, nobody even claims to have evidence that they conveniently can't disclose. There's just a series of directives and pronouncements by the government and the media that obviously Huawei is an arm of the Chinese government until everybody -- well, at least all the Americans -- believe it. The moral of this story is that (1) like the accusations against Facebook, the accusations against Huawei are without merit [5] (2) the greatest threat to people's privacy and the integrity of global communication networks is and always has been the US government and (3) the American media will never, ever speak the truth about this simple fact until they are forced to by leaks. But please, continue to freak out about Facebook and Huawei. It's clear [1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald-nsa-tampers-us-internet-routers-snowden https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwal... [2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/cisco-confirms-nsa-linked-zeroday-targeted-its-firewalls-for-years/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/cisco... [3] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-ns..., https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-verizon-is-happy-to-help-obama-and-the-nsa-spy-on-americans https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-verizon-is-happy-to-help-o... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) [5] Note here that unlike the US government Facebook has never, ever been caught doing anything illegal. While one can argue they over generously share data with firms like Cambridge Analytica etc. there's nothing remotely illegal about this thanks to America's extremely weak privacy laws. The reality is there are many, many companies doing far worse than Facebook but they're not based in SV so nobody cares.