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I think the parent comment wasn't talking about intercepting traffic and being able to know what your enemy is talking about. The parent comment was talking ab
by filoleg 6y ago
I think the parent comment wasn't talking about intercepting traffic and being able to know what your enemy is talking about.
The parent comment was talking about being able to take advantage of the situation by making the enemy use your devices and then incapacitating their infrastructure at the perfect moment by activating the killswitch on those devices.
- sudosysgen 6y agoThe solution for that isn't to boycott Huawei, it's to have multiple networks with many providers. A country using Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei is much better protected to such an attack than a company using only Nokia or only Huawei or only Ericsson, or both Nokia and Ericsson but not Huawei.
- filoleg 6y agoSure, I am not arguing one way or another regarding whether this ban is good or not. I am just saying that the cold war analogy had nothing to do with encryption, unlike what the post I am replying to is attempting to imply.