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Except in this case, there is no Ferrari. That's the crux of the issue that the article kind of touches on, but not really. Are Ericsson and Nokia free of EU s
by bilbo0s 7y ago
Except in this case, there is no Ferrari. That's the crux of the issue that the article kind of touches on, but not really.
Are Ericsson and Nokia free of EU surveillance facilities? Is any American equipment free of surveillance facilities? This is the real problem, lack of open hardware that we can readily validate as "better" or "worse". With a Honda and a Ferrari, we're free to pop the respective hoods and look into what we find. Heck, we can go way further than that if we know our OBD equipment well enough. But not so with, say, your average router.
So people out in the non American parts of the world say, "Meh, one's just as good as the other. They're all spying. May as well get the cheapest equipment I can." And right there, market share is won.
- sandworm101 7y agoThere is some good stuff out there. It ain't cheap, but it is possible to purchase and maintain secure networks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACLANE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACLANE (just an example, one of the few publicly-available descriptions of such networking products.)
- bilbo0s 7y agoThe point is that no one outside the US is going to accept that such equipment is completely free of American surveillance facilities. So why pay the premium? Buy the cheap stuff, and just let the big guys spy on you. Since they will do so whether you spend a lot, or a little. That's how the Chinese are winning market share. Because in a world where everything is compromised, well, price all of a sudden is the dominant consideration.