EU gets a bit STRESSED out about 5G: With great economic benefits come great security risks The Council of the European Union has warned member states that the introduction of 5G networks poses increased security risks while also bringing economic and infrastructure benefits. There's no specific mention of Huawei or any other Chinese company in the carefully worded missive (PDF), but it does make several …
THE FIRST RULE WHEN STRESSED OUT IS NOT TO SHOUT BY USING CAPITAL LETTERS......
Of course 5G will bring about a new wave of security risks, but then everything new in the last 15 years has brought about security risks. The difference nowadays is that we have experience and we now accept that risk is not "if" but "when". This means that we can do a modicum of planning, preparation and hopefully some testing.... None of this is new.....
Personally if they can really bring a serious bit rate to the market, without being maxed out every time you enter the city center, then I believe that 5G will bring about more good than bad... It might even alleviate some of the FTTH false promises....
Which version of 6G ?
The secret version that works great but is not ready commercially for the markets ?
The version 2 that is even better than v1 but that the ecologists are convinced could fry a fly dressed in a lead suit at 4kms.
The version 3 that the consortium can't seem to agree upon the mystery protocol's finer elements.
The version 4 that was written, completed, tested and implemented by a non-American country and is therefore on the FBI/CIA's list of undesirable/possibily terrorist hit list.
Or the version 5 which is basically 3G in a shiny wrapper, hated by all, costs and arm and a leg each month, requires a new 2000€ UltraPhone, and who network is so saturated that only Londoners consider it as usable?
Sarcastic, who me ??
I wonder if they're doing an RFC 2119 thing and that they originally wrote a "when written in CAPITAL letters, we are using the following words in the following sense" type of thing, but then forgot to include it in the document. I'd have thought that doing so wouldn't be OPTIONAL, if you're following those guidelines?
I'd have thought that doing so wouldn't be OPTIONAL, if you're following those guidelines?
With words like " "WELCOME", "EMPHASISE", "REAFFIRM" and "STRESS" it all reads like a typical political "Me Too" kind of response, rather than giving any actual direction. Just someone wanting to be seen doing something.
European governments are so shortsighted. With no warning the internet of things could come grinding to a halt at the behest of the Chinese. Across the land remotely controlled cat scratchers will cease to function properly and could, in a fully kitted out house, take part in the preparation of a wholly unacceptable meal involving my poor kitty in a tragically central role.
What's a 'Stakeholder' ? I seem to remember poor old Blair banging on about them, but he never explained very well.
Plus like all his successors in the post, he had a large proportion of Horatio Bottomley in him, which militated people from either listening carefully or taking him seriously.
In current management parlance:
A 'stakeholder' is 'person designated to be ending up holding up a long greased pole with their rectum'.
This can be reversible or irreversible, someone having the option of getting off the pole for a fee, is a 'client' or 'customer', someone renting a wobbly chair to postpone the grisly end is a 'subscriber', the irreversible insertions are found amongst 'employee', 'taxpayer' and 'investor' categories.
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