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You shouldn't trust any provider under the jurisdiction of an anti-liberty nation-state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R
by geofft 6y ago
You shouldn't trust any provider under the jurisdiction of an anti-liberty nation-state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Not sure why Huawei is unique here.
- kube-system 6y agoThe US and the Netherlands are both allied members of NATO. That's why Huawei is a different story.
- geofft 6y agoAre you saying it's worse for China to (be granted sufficient access by the Netherlands that, in theory, if they wished to abuse that access, they could) spy on communications in the Netherlands than for the US to spy on communications in the US?
- ipaddr 6y agoFrom a NATO point of view yes. China spying on the Netherlands would be worse than the US spying on itself.
- kube-system 6y agoI'm saying that the it's a reductionist oversimplification to say that it doesn't matter who the Netherlands picks for their telecom infrastructure because "everyone spies". Different countries have different relationships with each other, and the entire point of an alliance is to cooperate and establish trust.
- sidlls 6y agoI can't speak for the OP, but I'd say that, yes. The US's spying activity is an overreach (to put it mildly) and I don't agree with the extent or purpose in many cases. We also don't really have a well functioning democracy, in my opinion, due to the capture of the government by private corporations. But what we do have is still a democracy, and it is absolutely lightyears above and beyond the genocidal, anti-liberty government of China.