Ehh... I'll bite. I worked at Global Crossing in the late 90s and early 2000s as an engineer. I was a Primenet employee. We got Huawei gear in to evaluate. Vi

Ehh... I'll bite. I worked at Global Crossing in the late 90s and early 2000s as an engineer. I was a Primenet employee. We got Huawei gear in to evaluate. Virtually everything they made was based on IP theft. Their routers literally had "Cisco Systems" strings all over the image files. It was blatant. The PLA were constantly trying to break into our systems. We knew it. We talked about it. It wasn't a secret. This is a difficult subject that I don't talk about with other people, in persona or otherwise. The conversation almost always quickly goes stupid in one of two ways: The person I'm talking to instantly goes nationalist one way or the other, or they just don't seem to have the IQ to grasp the issue. Having a rational conversation about the topic of what the US government and as private citizens/companies do about blatant Chinese aggression feels impossible. As for online, the 50 Cent party quickly shows up en-mass with the typical FUD, bullying, distracting jokes, pearl clutching, and so on.