Re: Another Bloomberg "article"
The spy chip saga was 100% true.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/02/chinese-supply-chain-attack-on-computer-systems.html
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I have stuck my neck out here by adding my name to this reply - have 20 years experience in mobile networks, worked for every vendor and 12 operators.
It’s very routine to have the vendors engineers do the entirety of any software upgrade.
A) they have the experience with this. They are the domain experts on their kit
B) it makes them accountable if something goes wrong. There was a very well publicised case in NZ about 10 years back where Alcatel-Lucent took Telecom NZs mobile network off air for a number of hours due to a patch loaded on top of a patch without verification. Cost A-Lu 10’s of millions. If TNZ did it themselves it would have been zero.
In my current role as a national manager with MBNL in the UK, I am dealing with Ericsson and Huawei who both have managed services and deployment contracts and directly touch the network all day every day.
"We're Heeeeere!!!"
Kaboom!!!
"So are weeeeeee!!"
This is how wars start kids. Everyone is getting pretty leery of the other these days. Call the US whatever you like, but I doubt they would be twatish enough to try this.This is for upstart punkrockers with a chip on their shoulder.
And geez louise - I wonder who that could be.
Err no it wont - Vodafone just announced they are re-onshoring 2000 customer service jobs.
Thing is that Vodafone's network has improved dramatically in the past couple of years - if their customer service had improved with it Vodafone would be a bit better off by now - but they're starting to get on top of that now too.
Disclosure - Yes, I work for Vodafone.
Probably plays well to the crowd at home, but if I were in Chinese high command they guy that authorised this would get fired right away. It's the most boneheadedly stupid thing they could have done. For what - to get back at Trump for taking a call from Taiwan? To rile the US? To thumb their noses at Yankee aggression?
Two words to China from the rest of civilisation - grow up
If you think your little outburst here didn't go unnoticed by everyone you're wrong, and if you weigh up the potential upsides vs the potential downsides then here goes - on the upside - china gets a commercially available drone that tracks salinity, and gets to play Hector Comacho with the USA. downside - this just went around the world - and China is forever looking less trustworthy and more coercive in every dealing.
Well played douchebags.
They will drop their prices. Shit, I thought Apple put SOME value on what customers thought, obviously not.
If this is the way operators are going to treat their customers, this iPhone will flop just like the last one did (outside of America). Purses are being tightened and people know what extortion is when they see it.
I was going to buy one but I am off to get an N95 instead... better phone too.
They will drop their prices. Shit, I thought Apple put SOME value on what customers thought, obviously not.
If this is the way operators are going to treat their customers, this iPhone will flop just like the last one did (outside of America). Purses are being tightened and people know what extortion is when they see it.
I was going to buy one but I am off to get an N95 instead... better phone too.
They will drop their prices. Shit, I thought Apple put SOME value on what customers thought, obviously not.
If this is the way operators are going to treat their customers, this iPhone will flop just like the last one did (outside of America). Purses are being tightened and people know what extortion is when they see it.
I was going to buy one but I am off to get an N95 instead... better phone too.
They will drop their prices. Shit, I thought Apple put SOME value on what customers thought, obviously not.
If this is the way operators are going to treat their customers, this iPhone will flop just like the last one did (outside of America). Purses are being tightened and people know what extortion is when they see it.
I was going to buy one but I am off to get an N95 instead... better phone too.
They will drop their prices. Shit, I thought Apple put SOME value on what customers thought, obviously not.
If this is the way operators are going to treat their customers, this iPhone will flop just like the last one did (outside of America). Purses are being tightened and people know what extortion is when they see it.
I was going to buy one but I am off to get an N95 instead... better phone too.
They will drop their prices. Shit, I thought Apple put SOME value on what customers thought, obviously not.
If this is the way operators are going to treat their customers, this iPhone will flop just like the last one did (outside of America). Purses are being tightened and people know what extortion is when they see it.
I was going to buy one but I am off to get an N95 instead... better phone too.
They will drop their prices. Shit, I thought Apple put SOME value on what customers thought, obviously not.
If this is the way operators are going to treat their customers, this iPhone will flop just like the last one did (outside of America). Purses are being tightened and people know what extortion is when they see it.
I was going to buy one but I am off to get an N95 instead... better phone too.
One doesn't invest a bilion or so dollars in a piece of hardware to have some third party, even someone as reputable as the BBC, come along and hand you a piece of software without wanting fairly good control over how it integrates with your system.
Apple has taught the world how important the look and feel are. And they would be quite right too.
I'm totally with Sony (and MS, yerk...) on this one.
That the Dalai Lama (or Dalai Clique as they so fashionably put it) was planning crack suicide squads to attack the Chinese.
How fucking stupid do these people think we are??
Next they'll be telling us they invented golf...
Hang on, that *DID* claim that one too.