M Basta
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Part is that people may not know, part is people may not care, part is they may have nothing to hide (like me). I'm most interested in what a product does for me (performance, cost, features, reliability, security against hacking) than whether it may have some kind of 'back door' in it. Which almost everything probably does these days
It's the same as it's always been- the only truly secure system has to be stand-alone and totally disconnected from any other system making access impossible except from the inside
Phil
I get what you’re saying and I’m not trying to bust balls or be pedantic, but everyone cares about their privacy. If you truly didn’t, then I’d ask that you post your name, number, address, ss#, bank account numbers, account password, your medical records ... etc. right here and right now in this thread. See what I mean? Entities with access to our most personal information are granted implicit trust with those very details. And it’s not just about trusting they won’t do anything nefarious with that information; it’s about trusting they have the capability to protect and safeguard it from those who want to steal it and do harm.
As for the issues with Huawei & ZTE, and the rest of the accused ... make no mistake: this is not about them having the ability to look into your contacts or photo albums. It’s about control, and power and manipulation.
Imagine Huawei & ZTE had kept the 5G buildout contracts for the ATT, Verizon and T-Mobile 5G networks (they did at one point, but no longer do after US intel stepped in). That means they design, build and provide the hardware and software for vast swaths of the US Telecom infrastructure. If what western intel says about them is indeed true — a stealth extension of the Communist Chinese military with hidden agenda and ability to manipulate or control that network, including shutting it down at will — imagine the possibilities in the event of a national emergency, catastrophe ... or God forbid, an act of war? I no longer have a landline. My iPhone is my only phone. Imagine hundreds of millions of people suddenly being unable to communicate? That is precisely why US government entities are summarily banned from doing ANY business with many of these Chinese companies. And now NATO as a whole and many western nations and are doing the same, including cancelling previous contracts and undoing anything they may have already built. US intel has long claimed that NK, Iran and the Russians already have hooks into the aging US power grid, with alarming and disturbing ability to cause havoc at will. Imagine that network was designed and built by them. You don’t want to. Many of Huwaei’s and ZTE’s products are very, very appealing, especially to businesses who have to spend tens of millions for the stuff. They often have the better tech and are dirt cheap in comparison to their competitors. Are they selling these products at a loss for the “greater good” or for some “greater goal”?
Lastly, when I rhetorically ask about why anyone would buy products from any of these entities knowing this information (and assuming they trust it to be true), I’m essentially asking why vote with your dollars and essentially support such an entity’s goal ... whatever that is? Do you trust what your government is telling you? Or do you trust what their government is telling you? Is it all lies and some kind of tug of war for economic hegemony, as some here imply, or military hegemony? Those are questions only each of us can decide for ourselves. And I think the answer lies somewhere smack dab in the middle between paranoia/anxiety ... and willful ignorance/not giving any Fs.
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