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Comment by drusepth | Hacker News Reader

Didn't they get pretty close with Huawei when the previous president issued an executive order in response to state spying fears that:

* banned the sale of any of their phones or networking products in the US

* banned US companies selling product to Huawei

* cut funding to wireless carriers using Huawei equipment

...and then pressured allied countries to do the same?

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The investigation into Huawei was going on for many years prior to 2016. It's not exactly an initiative of the previous president.

I sat in briefings about Huawei and ZTE in 2007. Regretfully can't say more.

Are you personally upset about the clear intelligence failures and extrfiltration of protected information?

I've grown up watching this unfold and I'm shocked that the power groups seem to be so ineffectual at times that it's laughable(but that may be by design...)

It's an absolute shitshow from top to bottom. The people who know what they're doing in intelligence/counter-intelligence agency infosec/netsec (and within major DoS and DoD contractors) have been fully aware and ringing the alarm bells for years. The technologically unsophisticated politicians have been mostly ignoring it.

how much of the ignorance is willful?

You'll know when the stock trades are released.

> Didn't they get pretty close with Huawei

No, given that jihadists were kidnapped, tortured and murdered - all of this illegally.

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