Is it me or has Huawei only appeared in media the last few months? All my years of reading HN, etc. and no recollection until recent controvery. Feels like they’ve managed to stir many waters in record time. For a company founded in 1987, what gave?
As someone whose country isn't part of five eyes, the hypocrisy makes me quietly laugh.
(Edit: updated for less gratuitous accusations)
If the five eyes hadn’t shown time and time again, that they don’t give a damn about the laws and rights of other democratic nations, and quite definitly use “security” as a token for industrial spionage, I might show more support.
But please show more than some fiction in which Huwawei has backdoors nobody managed to proof just yet.
Yeah they could. But do they?
This means the choice is only about who gets your trade secrets, with a bit more favour for huawei because they didn’t do it yet.
It is so easy from an US perspective to say “Take our product, we are the good ones” and conviniently ignoring that people tasked with building a infrastructure that isn’t beeing spied on have a hard time choosing here.
This would be easier if US products were actually trustworthy and there wasn’t a history of ignoring the rights of allied nations and court ordered backdoors. Why would I care if the backdoor was ordered by the chinese government or the US government? Both proofed they don’t really care about the rights of foreign citizen and both have aspirations to become or stay an empire.
The US damaged itself with it’s undemocratic spying practices and the final bill for it is not there yet. That beeing said I’d love to pay a bit more for a good product I can trust, but the US is not the place for such a product.
The second point is irrelevant if you're not American. Also, can you name a company that endured severe, tangible repercussions for their spying?
I definitely understand the argument but the hypocrisy is just too loud to put aside.