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And use American Cisco equipment with definitely no NSA backdoors instead?
by RobotToaster 11mo ago
And use American Cisco equipment with definitely no NSA backdoors instead?
- personomas 11mo ago[dead]
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 11mo agoThat is called being on the other side of an airtight hatch (h/t Raymond Chen) The US has troops, tanks, aircraft, even nuclear weapons stationed in German. Sovereignty vis-a-vis the United States is not something on the table.
- daneel_w 11mo agoIt's an east vs west thing.
- qwertox 11mo agoAt the current rate the US will become an "even further east".
- jabron 11mo agoWhat does this even mean?
- exasperaited 11mo agoWhat it means is that in the future Europe will have to consider a Trumpist USA to be like a 21st Century version of a totalitarian Eastern Bloc or Soviet country: Orbanism, absurd projectionism, dangerous allies, the state demanding a share of businesses and directing sales and mergers, openly describing the EU (and now the UK) as not friends or even as enemies, trumped up prosecutions of political enemies, assuming that foreign surveillance is built into its products, etc. Some of these things are already here.
- exasperaited 11mo ago*protectionism
- dragonelite 11mo agoMore like west vs rest of the world. Its cold war round 2 but this time its the west that is starting to hide behind a iron/cyber wall.
- neko_ranger 11mo agolmao China is already in a cyber wall. What's wrong with building defenses if your opponent already has? What have they built the defenses for?
- ojl 11mo agoI guess they will use Ericsson and Nokia equipment instead.
- izacus 11mo agoMore expensive US Cisco equipment, at least Trump will be happy for it.
- culi 11mo agoThe article states that they're pushing for independence from American tech as well