White House creates 'Team Telecom' to probe whether foreign telcos should be allowed near US networks The White House has issued an executive order establishing a committee to help the Federal Communications Commission review the participation of foreign companies in US telecommunication services. The committee, chaired by the US Attorney General, will include the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and …
Similarly to what I just posted on another article, the cynicism caused by (evidently) old age caused me to read "Its job will be to advise the FCC on the law enforcement and national security implications of foreign telecom companies..." as "...to ensure that no communications by the private citizens of this country could be or shall be spied upon by any agency whatsoever...except ours."
All our IoT devices, laptops, phones, etc. are riddled with security bugs, call home features, spyware, etc.
Throw in Zoom. Add printers, scanners, car parts, etc.
Round it up with a large amount of disposable capital.
Isn’t it too little too late?
China has grabbed the end points.
Or is it just the large companies we are worried about?
The old fuckers in charge were the ones growing up during the cold war
This is affected tand locked their mindsets to the them Vs us attitude.
Unfortunately it's going to take at least another generation before we can even start to move forward.
The sooner the current pair pop their clogs the better.
Nobody in the USA politic or military think China is planning to invade the USA to further global communism.
They do believe that China wants to have the ability to both spy on the USA for tactical and economic reasons and to have leverage over the USA in any trade/territorial dispute.
It's what every country does, Britain was spying on the Germans to get an edge in Eu agricultural polciy talks.
The irony is that China no longer has to.
From a world domination view, China already has all the tools at its disposal to take the reins if it so chooses and the US can do sod all about it, especially since Trump and supporters have emptied the reserves (mainly into their own pockets). Covid-19 may have slowed it down a bit, but has had almost no effect on their controls, and the US can't bomb them like they do with others because they will bomb them right back.
If I had any money invested in the US I'd drop it - the whole picture will change in a few years. The only thing that holds it back is China waiting until it feels the time is right.
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