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Now imagine every IT purchase decision in Brazil from now on, "We need a few million dollars of network or computer systems, should we buy it from Cisco or HP o
by guelo 13y ago
Now imagine every IT purchase decision in Brazil from now on, "We need a few million dollars of network or computer systems, should we buy it from Cisco or HP or IBM or Microsoft? Hell no! It'll probably have an NSA bug in it."
Repeat for every other country and you have the beginning of the end for the dominance of the American computer industry.
- devx 13y agoSounds good to me. That's what you get when you become a sleazy company willing to do anything for money (in the short term) without thinking of the consequences. Plus, it's also quite ironic considering US started this whole trend of banning companies because of fear of bugs in their hardware. Reap what you sow.
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- joe_the_user 13y agoWould any company from any country want the NSA to spy on them? If the NSA is passing data about foreign companies to us domestic companies, what says it would pass data on domestic companies to it's "favorites"? That data would be a big bargaining chip and the NSA is aiming for cooperation everywhere. One would assume that any company anywhere that wasn't beholden to the intelligence community would be presently looking for a secure, open source, open-hardware-if-possible, end-to-end solution for networking their data.
- pekk 13y agoExcept that isn't happening in Brazil, let alone every other country. Instead we will have more hot air and stoking of jingoism from politicians. At the end of the day everyone including the US is always buying huge piles of electronics from China, which is also big and scary - and yet their industry does not magically go belly up. Usually meeting requirements at a decent price is a higher priority than whatever elicits extreme angst from Hacker News.
- jeltz 13y ago> Usually meeting requirements at a decent price is a higher priority than whatever elicits extreme angst from Hacker News. Your comment would have been stronger without the quip against people at HN. As you can see from all the hot air from politicians this is not localized to HN.
- outworlder 13y agoExcept that, while China is "big and scary", it's not proven to have launched a spy campaign on the same scale. Sure, they have tried to hack the US on multiple occasions, but that's geopolitics, and very different from selling bugged devices.
- pekk 13y agoChina has been documented engaging in state-sponsored industrial espionage on a number of occasions. To write off everything they do as "geopolitics" and not to do the same with the US is a non sequitur.