Meanwhile in Australia, our government has recently passed a law [1] that very openly and explicitly makes companies legally obligated to add backdoors for the

Meanwhile in Australia, our government has recently passed a law [1] that very openly and explicitly makes companies legally obligated to add backdoors for the government to spy on whoever it likes, and imposes serious legal penalties on anyone who discloses these activities to their customers or the general public. I don't know how much of the Huawei article is propaganda and how much of it describes a genuine threat. But one thing is for certain, which is that governments in the west are not much better. This was clear five years ago from the Snowden revelations; our governments are just being a little more open about it now and forcing private industry into their surveillance regimes. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/7/18130806/australia-access-and-assistance-encryption-bill-2018-facebook-google-apple-respond https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/7/18130806/australia-access...