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It may be a bad actor in the sense of an aggressive tech giant employing unconventional means to make profit and take market share. But there is zero evidence i
by deehouie 7y ago
It may be a bad actor in the sense of an aggressive tech giant employing unconventional means to make profit and take market share. But there is zero evidence in the wiki that Huawei is a national security threat. The only evidence it's a national security threat is that it is a Chinese company.
- lsh 7y agoI disagree
- SoylentYellow 7y agoThe fact it is a Chinese company is all the evidence needed. Huawei is subject to China's 2015 National Security Law, which grants the Chinese government the power to force Chinese companies to provide assistance in matters of national security. In other words, if Chinese intelligence wanted Huawei to secretly introduce a backdoor, it would be a legal order and unlawful for Huawei to resist. What makes you think the US needs to have evidence beyond that when this impacts critical infrastructure and national security? Why take the risk?
- DiogenesKynikos 7y agoThat would be an argument for not allowing Huawei to supply equipment for the US 5G network.* It is not, however, an argument for banning American companies from doing business with Huawei. As the American head of the US-China Business Council said, it's one thing to ban Huawei from the US, but banning American companies from selling equipment to Huawei is more like "murder": https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/06/11/trump-trying-to-murder-huawei-head-of-us-china-business-council.html https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/06/11/trump-trying-to-murder... * An analogous argument could be used, of course, by other countries to justify banning American hardware in their own critical systems.
- erklik 7y agoI am curious. Would the same be true for CSIRO? Considering that Austalia has introduced laws requiring any company to provide them with a backdoor that does not notify the user and the developer is essentially under a gag-order?
- reallydude 7y agoAustralia is not a national security concern. This is political wargaming.
- lsh 7y agodeehouie, your comment history + account age are a little suspect. Do you have an agenda here?
- echevil 7y agoI looked at the comment history and found nothing surprising at all. looks like any other Chinese engineer
- whoevercares 7y agoI’m a Chinese engineer as well. If you don’t mind, would you also look at my comment history and summarize what’s in common/special about Chinese commenting on political news on hacker news? I learnt a lot on hacker news how to not be flagged and debate in a western fashion, though many Chinese won’t bother to debate what they think are “common sense” (e.g. trust any wiki or media article)
- deehouie 7y agohow do you know i'm chinese?
- echevil 7y agolol just guessing. Chinese immigrants are likely to comment on China related issues and hold dramatically different viewpoints from most westerners, who are blind-sided by the misinformation spread by their media
- dang 7y agoThis is a serious violation of the site guidelines. When people do this, they're nearly always wrong, and often being outright abusive to another user. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do this again. If you want more explanation, there's reams of it at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=true&page=0&query=by:dang%20astroturfing https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
- compuguy 7y agoThat doesn't mean there isn't evidence that is non-public or classified, though....