FBI investigation determined Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear comms

But then how will network operators outsource all of their infrastructure maintenance to vendors? That's the problem.

We have this naive idea that companies running networks employ staff to manage their networks. In reality, it hasn't been like that in a while because there has been a tremendous push in the industry to outsource everything to third parties. So the person who owns the cell tower likely has no idea who is maintaining it, much less has that person on their payroll.

No implementation is perfect and it just takes one determined clever person to break or weaken wpa2 a bit more and it would be chaos.

Banning the devices all together because they're not worth a dam and are a security nightmare when not setup correctly though.

Now there's an idea.

The 5G crowd just didn't research fully. They are still right.

That's fascinating from a psyops/infowar perspective.

As they say, "where there's smoke there's fire".

I've never followed any of the 5G conspiracy tommyrot, but isn't it odd that in all likelihood they're quite literally correct, but for simply the wrong ends?

Were I to don my master-manipulators black Pilgrim hat and apply some extra-strength twisting wax to my comedy moustache... I'd be be just delighted to insert such "almost true" ideas amongst a bunch of credulous idiots in order to suppress belief in my actual plan.

Also, in some cases the expected destinations have been hacked already, I'm guessing

> multiple channels for exfiltration

If they can send via wifi, it could be almost impossible to detect? So much noise in the wifi space?

These sorts of vague accusations have been made against Huawei for several years now, but to date, no one has ever produced a shred of evidence that Huawei installs backdoors on its telecommunications equipment. Huawei devices are installed all over the place, and it's not as if there's been a lack of scrutiny. In the UK, Huawei even submitted to regular audits by British intelligence, and nothing was ever found. Every claim that's been made has turned out to be along the lines of, "We discovered that Huawei uses industry-standard tools to update firmware on its devices, and the network operators have the ability to oversee the updates."

The accusations are pure assertions, backed up by a general suspicion of everything Chinese. This really began with Trump, and it's been sad to watch Western countries fall ever deeper into paranoia and hatred towards China. It's Yellow Peril v2.0.

Isn't it? Ideology is a lie, people are all the same all over the world (except maybe for some peculiarities like western chauvinism). Everyone wants to live contented lives, be free, raise kids in peace and so on.

Every country should have it's own sovereign tech stacks simply to avoid effects of corruption or irresponsibility of global elites. Otherwise we see stuff like US' economic and sanction wars, which create pools of poverty, which inherently cause plunge of observance of human rights, which causes immense suffering of ordinary folk -- all that so someone could make money on something like cheap rare earth metals mining for selling electric car batteries.

Have we already forgotten that US dropped atomic weapons on Japan yet are now fast allies or that US supported the Islamic fundamentalism in Afganistan before now becoming enemies. US + Saddam bosom buddies in the Iran vs Iraq war.

The sample size is not exactly small.

> From 2017 to 2019, the Houston Consulate cosponsored a series of “matchmaking” events with several Chinese technology transfer centers, attracting approximately three hundred U.S. businesses each year.

This is a very good example of how completely normal diplomatic activity is being cast as somehow malign. The Chinese government seeks foreign investment. Part of that involves the type of public events this passage is describing, in which the government invites a bunch of companies to a trade fair and pitches the idea of investing in China. The US does this abroad. Pretty much everyone does. This document is trying to blur the line between espionage and normal diplomatic activity.

There is actual espionage that occurs out of embassies and consulates around the world. This isn't it.