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by majia 8y ago
If, in an alternative universe, the Chinese court rules in favor of Apple, China must be retaliating the US by green lighting the IP theft of Qualcomm.
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by majia 8y ago
Based on available public information, the case happened about eight years ago, and Meng was not a top executive at Huawei. At that time there were many companies in China and elsewhere selling US products to Iran. Huawei allegedly sold abo
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by majia 8y ago
This reminds me of the Yinhe incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinhe_incident
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by majia 8y ago
This is essentially a hostage situation. Chinese government holds its people as hostage. If google doesn’t give in to censorship demands, people die or suffer from the lack of information. Some people would argue that Chinese peolple dying
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by majia 8y ago
How about fine based on a small fixed amount plus an increased income tax rate for some time?
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The party doesn’t need to offer them free vpn. Instead, it figures out what vpn services they are using and shuts them down. It goes as far as using machine learning to detect vpn traffic. I guess this is more effective because dissents is
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by majia 8y ago
Providing vpn services is almost illegal in china. The party doesnt ask for logs; it shuts down vpn services and punishes the providers. So the odds of vpn provider sharing logs with the government is ironically low.
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by majia 8y ago
Hardware testing is much more than firmware checksum comparison. Once you have the blueprint, you can physically compare it against samples using various methods such as x-ray, acoustic and electric profiling to detect any differences. Furt
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by majia 8y ago
Huawei does have disincentive not to respond to the demands of Chinese governments because its hardware is opened and checked by other governments. Installing a backdoor has a good chance to be caught.
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The testing centers have more sophisticated methods to address your concern. They procure Huawei equipment from various vendors and check if they have the same hardware and software. In fact, the recent report from UK did find minor shortco
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by majia 8y ago
The US government, with its own hacking of other countries as revealed by Snowden, its strategic rivalry with China, and its history of false intelligence such as WMD in Iraq, isn’t a trustworthy source to evaluate Huawei’s security. Huawei
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The US does conduct espionage to help its political and economic negotiations. Its goal is to give us industry an edge too. The US isn’t performing commercial spying simply because there isn’t much valuable staff for it to steal. It’s rathe
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Another way to make censorship impossible: Ask all governmental, educational and technological websites to provide VPN services or links to other VPN services. If China wants to implement censorship, it has to ban all these websites that a
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by majia 8y ago
As revealed by Snowden, US can compel tech companies to help their intel services too. Instead of a total ban based on how friendly we feel towards certain countries, a trust but verified approach should be adopted. Establish comprehensive,
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by majia 8y ago
I think Jin's novels are somewhat more sophisticated than those of Tolkien. Beyond telling stories of good vs evil, Jin used historical settings to explore deeper subjects, such as the twist of fate in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, and th
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by majia 8y ago
Another dupe with lots of comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18307524 With so many dupe on a paper which in my personal opinion is poorly written, it looks more like a xenophobia or propaganda attack.
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by majia 8y ago
> Most Westerners have no problem with the idea of India as a global leader. It's because India is still too far behind. When one day India is about to be the next global leader, westerners will start to think otherwise. It's a
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by majia 8y ago
How is starving millions of people to death in Yemen better than Chinese ideological camps? Btw, Saudi isn't putting its minority religious populations in camps because they are dead or fled the country. Replace MBS? Ask Jamal Khashogg
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by majia 8y ago
Its even more ironic to consider who are getting investments from Saudi Arabia, whose corruption and human rights situation are far worse than China.
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It is a strategic failure that western democracies turned a blind eye to the infrastructure development and poverty reduction in developing nations and enjoyed their special interests inherited from the colonial era. That's why China
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by majia 8y ago
Could someone explain how out-of-ordinary these hijacks are? I thought network traffic is similar to connecting flights: it's not uncommon to fly from NY to Seoul with a transit stop in China. Network traffic may follow a non-optimal p
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by majia 8y ago
Perhaps some background info can help. Beidou I was developed in early 2000s. And at that time Chinese military satellite wasn’t advanced at all. Even though beidou I is vulnerable to anti radiation missles, it’s the best they have and at l
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by majia 8y ago
Looks like some misunderstanding here. No one ever claimed Beidou I was developed as a satellite pager. The reason Beidou I needs two way transmission is they wanted add pager functionality to its navigation functionality. The party wants m
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by majia 8y ago
It’s not about “more control”. The first beidou was two way mainly because they need some kind of satellite phone functionality.
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"We are likely to see an increased bifurcation of the world into two camps - 'pro-China' and 'pro-US'", says Blaine Curcio, founder of Orbital Gateway Consulting Why do some people view it as a with-us-or-again
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There are two different and independent beidou systems. One is passive and cannot track receivers, and the other is similar to a simple satellite internet.
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2. Simulated what the detector would have reported for each. I think this would be really hard. For example, you need to simulate how the detector responds to different planet compositions, different signal to noise ratios at different dis
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> The answer was no: in more 1000 trials with randomly assigned planet sizes put through a virtual Kepler’s detection scheme, a pattern of similarly-sized planets in the same systems never emerged. This computational experiment did not r
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If North Korean can make good phones at an affordable price, people will buy them too, just like we buy Saudi Oil.
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Not surprising, it's a phone model for Chinese market. The "evil services" are the Chinese equivalents of Google Maps, Google Analytics, Google Search, FB messenger, and iCloud/Samsung cloud. The real issue is that most

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