German 5G network ban said to loom for Huawei and ZTE The nation of Germany looks set to belatedly join the ban on Huawei and ZTE equipment being used in national telecoms networks, after years of stubbornly resisting pressure from the US to comply. The German federal government plans to forbid mobile operators from installing key components from Huawei and ZTE into their 5G …
> For starters the US is not engaging in genocide and does not run concentration camps.
Well, it did previously - the genocide of the native peoples and the WW2 "internment" camps of anyone looking a bit Asian - but one would think the primary concern of the German government would be how this affects Germany and German citizens, rather than what another country is doing within their borders to their citizens.
To be fair to the US - they did so with the best of intentions in mind - so we should really let them off
Look at what the US is now - are you saying the Native Americans would have done anything better with the land?
@VoiceOfTruth Although true that is an incredibly harsh position to take - when the US entered Iraq it did so under the banner of truth, democracy, justice and ensuring the stability and safety of the free world.
Iraq was rumoured to have WMDs and America's war found that rumour to be untrue AND brought freedom and democracy to Iraq - all of which are positive things.
As to Guantanamo - the inhabitants of Guantanamo are terrorists who deserve everything they get - they either directly participated in or otherwise somewhat involved in the destruction of the World Trade Centres and are imprisoned for their crimes.
Of course, you could say that certain elements had American training which eventually ended up being used against them, and that the invasion due to WMDs was all oil based - but that is all hearsay and you are anti-American and anti West and anti FREEDOM for saying so
"For starters the US is not engaging in genocide and does not run concentration camps."
What the hell does that have to do with whether or not the country of supply is spying on others?
It's a really simple question - if the Germans are going to pull out Chinese tech because of fears about back doors, spying, and hijacking important parts of infrastructure.... what are they going to replace that with? The only trustworthy hardware that Germany can use is fully German built. And I suspect such a thing might not exist, else surely they'd have already done that.
To install American kit in place of the Chinese? We all know that the US government is an unhealthy mixture of paranoid, batshit crazy (well, half of them) and massive data fetishists. We all know that the spook agencies operate above the usual legal process. We all know that they often think their laws apply extraterritorially. Therefore, if we're going to talk about theoretical fears, the only real benefit that America has at this point in time is that they are supposed to be an ally.
So I repeat the question. If Chinese tech is bad, what tech is good?
"So I repeat the question. If Chinese tech is bad, what tech is good"
The answer is Nordic tech from Ericsson and Nokia, the number 2 and 3 in network equipment manufacturing in the world.
Had those two companies been able to compete on price with Huawei then it would have been those two from the beginning.
This is nothing new and some might remember that Trump did not only suggest the USA to buy Greenland but also Nokia or Ericsson.
The answer is Nordic tech from Ericsson and Nokia, the number 2 and 3 in network equipment manufacturing in the world.
So whilst european, still “foreign”.
No. Shared values:
- Intellectual property
- Fair trade
- Democracy
- Rule of law
- Human rights
Unlike chinese companies that are controlled by the PRC.
The cost of buying chinese is not just money but putting our values at risk. Supporting the PRC to dominate the world through the 'Belt and Road' initiative makes no sense and makes for global suffering.
Only an ignorant fool would buy chinese. It's the only vote you have with PRC...
The irony is that theor own security services have confirmed Huawei gear to be safe, so the rest is politics. Given how the US have their fingers in pretty much everything and came up with fun ideas like TIA and the Clipper chip I would not want to trust anything they have their hands in either - plus, it's generations behind..
That was Huawei's actual sin: being so far ahead in 5G tech that it showed that they could do smart things themselves too. Or maybe this was done because the US efforts of industrial espionage failed..
"have confirmed"
Past tense misses the actual dilemma.
It's not Chinese gear right here and now, it's Chinese gear, with all the major investment and operational commitments that brings, for the next couple of decades.
ie. Just because Chinese gear might (assuming you're comment is true) be safe now, doesn't mean the drinking partner chosen for the duration of the pub lock-in won't slip a little poison into the drink any time later on.
"We all know that the US government is an unhealthy mixture of paranoid, batshit crazy (well, half of them)"
To be clear, with half of them blindly right, and the other half blindly left, they are ALL crazy. Anyone not identifying as centrist, by definition, is indoctrinated into batting one way or the other, rather than for reasonable debate on a subject.
@MrZoolook
That is the tragedy of a two party system. Most Americans are center when it comes to what they expect from the society in form of education, healthcare, workers rights and infrastructure and so forth but due to the two party system it's always one or the other and the paranoid have nowhere to go but to try to take over one or the other.
In "many party" countries run by coalition governments the mad ones form their fringe parties to the far right or the far left and tend to be less dangerous if as loud.
Less batshit among the Democrats to reveal my view, not to be too diplomatic.
And add to that the great plague of the English speaking world, Rupert, back in time called "Red Rupert" as he kept a bust of Lenin in his rooms, to quote the Wikipedia.
the US is not engaging in genocide
They just do it slower - cops shooting black people without any consequences is still a thing over there
does not run concentration camps
And where do you think the expression 'black sites" originates?
Don't get me wrong, neither has a clean nose but I am loath to go along with someone claiming to be whiter than white to justify something that is just false competition.
"They just do it slower - cops shooting black people without any consequences is still a thing over there"
If you can't do the time - don't commit the crime
"And where do you think the expression 'black sites" originates?"
These are enemies of the state and therefore deserve everything they get - remember the US does not torture - they enhance interrogate.
>For starters the US is not engaging in genocide and does not run concentration camps.
Quite apart from that being debatable from a historical perspective the Chinese don't engage in genocide, period. They've had problems with Islamic fundamentalism -- ISIS or equivalent -- in what the fundamentalists called "East Turkmenistan" (we know it as Xinjang)). By "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" doctrine we tend to support fundamentalism when it gives us some leverage against countries we don't like while doing the same thing -- and a lot worse -- where there's no political capital to be made.
Anyway, if you're an avid KoolAid drinker who am I to stop you? Just remember this has absolutely nothing to do with base station security and everything to do with international sales in a large market -- remember, 'ripping and replacing' is a great sales opportunity for someone, especially if their kit had already lost out in a competitive bidding process. Politicians tend to be cheaper than engineers.
China managed to kill/murder somewhere between 30 and 60 million of its own population during the two great self-inflicted famines from the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution". That sounds an awful lot like genocide. Period.
In telecom, Not American...
Because there's no American Telecom equipment companies unless you count Cisco, but they have failed miserably so far entering the Radio domain and most of the network functions... And providing transport ( parse : routers ) will only lead you so far in the telecom world.
The choise is relatively easy in Tlecom :
- Nokia ( Finland )
- Ericsson ( Sweden )
- ZTE ( China )
- Huawei ( China )
- a South Korean company ( I'm not sure which one )
- a Japanese company ( I'm also not sure with one )
And the last two are not really providing equipments outside their home countries.
-> However, the UK came under sustained political pressure from the US to eject Huawei from its networks, with threats such as a withdrawal of intelligence sharing if Westminster failed to comply with Washington’s demands.
America's intelligence long term: The Taliban will lose, the western stooge government can last years.
Analysis: America has no credibility for long term intelligence.
America's intelligence short term: The people bombed on the last day were terrorists preparing to attack good bible-reading Americans.
Analysis: The family murdered by America was entirely innocent. America has no credibility for short term intelligence.
We can do without that kind of unintelligence.
Apart that is from the predictions of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, being foretold 4 months in advance. And the various other public comments on the failures of the Russian forces in said invasion. All of which were extremely accurate. To the point where they either have a mole deep in the Kremlin or their surveillance systems are light years ahead of Russian counter intelligence efforts.
Quote: "....ban said to loom for Huawei and ZTE...."
It's a joke, isn't it? Cisco, Jupiter......................lot's of Fort Meade "friends" have been enabling snooping for years and years and years......
My personal approach is to encrypt everything I send to my friends. That way the friendly folk at Fort Meade (and anyone else snooping) just get to see encryption.
Oh yes...my friends have the appropriate software......... Example of our private encryption -- good luck reading it whoever you are:
=== Book Cipher Start ===
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== Book Cipher End ==
This is one thing I've always wondered about - surely I'd have thought that it would be a standard setting on all telecoms equipment to encrypt any traffic being carried on its network? Essentially this would then mean the equipment is secure as long as the encryption standard is secure.
Obviously this wouldn't stop any form of hardware based intervention - so for example theoritically, Chinese companies could put some form of kill switch in their equipment for use in war time etc - in the same way the US apparently puts kill switches in any military equipment sold overseas ... or the obscurification of GPS accuracy in times of war etc - but in terms of listening in on traffic this would prevent that from happening.
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