Re: How many Chinese (agents?) are on here?
So what can you do? Fake news isn't just a fight for Facebook to deal with. If it's for the public of this world, there are already technologies in placed as shown by Netflix to determine if one's connection is on a home AS or a commercial/institution AS.
Uhuh. Are you having problems with watching Netflix via your home 'AS'? You're right though. Fake news is a problem that a discerning public has to deal with, especially when the 'fake' news is official propaganda as part of a trade dispute. Buy Freedom routers! Complete with CALEA! Made or assembled in China, but once exported, powered by Freedom electrons and photons!
But a lot of us are IT people. Some might be looking at buying and installing tens of thousands of bits of tin to deploy 5G or other large networks, and if Freedom tin costs >$100 or more per device, that cost will have to be passed on to users, who want cheap. And some of us understand secure network design, and seperating control/data planes to try and prevent miscreants pwning our networks. Or just monitor traffic for unsual patterns, like terabits of data heading for institutional AS's in China.. Which isn't an exact science because institutions know about VPNs.
TL;DR though is if the risks are known, designs and procedures can be put in place to mitigate those risks. To an extent. Like it may mean having to hold more spares in case trade wars disrupt supplies.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
