FCC Orders Equipment Removed in Step Aimed at Huawei, ZTE (bloomberg.com) 56
The Federal Communication Commission ordered carriers to remove network equipment that poses a security risk, taking another step aimed at China's Huawei and ZTE. From a report: The agency in a 5-0 vote also said it would establish a list of proscribed equipment, and it set up a program to reimburse carriers for replacing suspect gear that will start once Congress devotes an estimated $1.6 billion. The agency said the actions, which affect providers that take federal subsidies, implement a law Congress passed in March. The FCC, Congress and President Donald Trump's administration are confronting China on a range of issues including trade and the novel coronavirus. The FCC accuses Huawei and ZTE of posing a risk of espionage, an allegation each denies. Last year the agency said subsidies can't be used to buy gear from Huawei or ZTE.
Room 641A (Score:5, Insightful)
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Huawei can't do anything with the intelligence they collect from me. The NSA has a much longer reach.
Re: Room 641A (Score:2)
If you are literally too fucking stupid to think beyond a "us vs them" mindset, just shut the fuck up, for all of us.
How about *all* spying and totalitarian control being evil amd neither the people and businesses of the USA and China being evil, per se??
I feel like I literally have to ask of you can even comprehend that, with your brainwashing being so strong.
Re: I have to admit I laughed out loud (Score:2)
Any proof? (Score:1)
Any proof of this? Anything in the microcode, in the CPU code? Somewhere? We're slowly moving away from "innocent till proven guilty" towards "guilty until proven innocent" .. just like the ballot issue .. republicans can't show any proof of compromise but want the election results overturned.
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Haha, you sound like a commie yourself. YOU are the one implementing actual communism -- convicting without evidence .. where does that come from but communism you ninny. I operate with evidence not emotion unlike you crazy person. Fair trials, suddenly is a communist thing?
Re: Any proof? (Score:2)
I am not a communist, youâ(TM)re the communist. Clear? Why did I even need to clarify that? Nationalist Socialist (populism) pigs like you are the real communists you follow communist philosophy and then tell me Iâ(TM)m the communist?
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1. You are feeding a troll
2. Have you seen Anonymous Coward's posting history? Some mindbogglingly stupid s*** he would never have posted if it was attributable.
3. SHOW US THE CVE NUMBERS. If there is no CVE attached to these allegations then they are baseless crap posted by people with financial, religious or ideological axes to grind. People like Tom Cotton.
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Yep, that would settle it. But "national security," "secrets" and other nonsense is used to justify their utter lack of proof. I can't help but be reminded of the whole Spy Chips in Super Micro trash reporting fiasco.
Re:Any proof? (Score:5, Insightful)
This isn't a criminal case, it is just regulations and bureaucracy.
However I agree with you that we are just blocking products from rumors vs actual facts.
The argument goes like this.
Huawei is a Chinese Company, China is a Communist Country, Communist Countries own the Companies... Huawei is sharing data to the Chinese Government because they are owned by them.
China has a complex relationship with the United States. China wants to have trade with the US, as the United States has a lot of money to spend, we are also located along their shipping lanes so we are a good customer to be sold to. The United States wants to Trade with China as well, as the world most populous country, so they have a huge customer base that the US wants to sell to. Also China has cheap labor, which the US wants to buy parts for cheap than resell for more profit. While the US has a strong entrepreneurial culture, where many new business growth ideas and business processes that China can profit off of.
Also Chinese Politics are at Odds with the United States, also they are in competition for other countries, and they have a set of partnerships with other countries, and opposing military objectives.
What really should be worked out, does our trade advantages beat our military advantages. If Trade is more valuable, it would make sense for China and Huawei to not be spying on the US and provide as good as a product that can be provided for the cost. If it is military and political gain then the products may be faulty and unsafe.
With all said, Technology is not Magic. We can see what traffic comes and goes out of such equipment. The microcode and other software can be decompiled into something that an human can look at and see if there is anything nefarious happening. We can prove if the product is safe or not.
This is guilty until proven innocent, and we will not field any evidence of innocence.
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What would evidence of innocence be for this? I'm under the impression there are ways to implement back doors in these devices that are impossible (or nearly so) to detect in the finished product. Is it really prudent to deploy potentially compromised devices in critical infrastructure roles, when it might be years before we actually identify the vulnerabilities? The stakes in this specific area are higher, it legitimately warrants a level of concern that consumer products or meme platforms like TikTok don'
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So you are going into conspiracy logic here. Because you don't know how such equipment works, you assume there is some magic undetectable magic that Chinese can do to hide what the product does.
If you expect that the product could be a problem, randomly test samples of equipment, this will raise their costs, so most people may not buy them.
While you can hide backdoor to the individual customer, it is tough to hide it from someone who is actually checking the product for one. Oh look this wired device has a
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There's nothing magic about it - when you design the chip, it does whatever you want. You don't have to outsource a function onto a separate chip, or into software that can be audited. You don't have to send a TCP packet to China. The equipment continually sends out mountains of data to hundreds of devices. It wouldn't be hard to get a receiver with a legitimate SIM card in range, and at that point it's indistinguishable from normal traffic.
As for conspiracy, they most definitely do conspire to commit espio
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Show me the debunking. Where's the evidence?
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Re: Any proof? (Score:2)
The National Security Agency is the only branch of government that actually listens to you.
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9 to 0, Supreme court laughed at his zero-merit Pennsylvania case (and they WILL laugh at the Texas case too) .. that 9 includes the 3 judges Trump himself selected. Or are they all morons? Trump lacked the basic judgment to select intelligent judges? I mean shit, you are claiming even YOU are a better judge. He could have selected you instead of those 3 caballeros. Speaking of judgment, how can Trump's judgement be OK to run the country? Some examples of many: He selected Mattis for Defense Secretary, and
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They want the ballot results overturned because their dear leader didn't win. Considering that even the rat Giuliani doesn't actually claim fraud in court when he's under oath, I don't think many of Trump's cronies actually believe the results were tainted in any way.
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Looks like someone with mod points is butt-hurt.
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The proof is that a Chinese company controls the firmware updates.
It was the exact same problem my company faced trying to sell security software globally. We were approached by representatives of a Chinese company responsible for various technology transfers, and they made it clear that the only way we were going to go into China was if they bought us. Otherwise, the mere fact that we controlled the keys was sufficient to exclude us from selling anywhere in China.
If you control the firmware, you essentia
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So the fact that your phone manufacturer controls the firmware on your phone is "proof" that they are spying on you? That's how proof logic works in our brain? hahaha
"If you disagee, you're anti-American!" (Score:2)
Same game all over again. [imgur.com]
Except this time the dictator is orange.
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If you have sufficient security clearance, and can demonstrate a need to know, then the NSA will provide you with a report. Otherwise the answer is "That's none of your business."
Money Making 3 Step Plan (Score:1)
Step 2. Get government reimbursement to remove all old nonfunctioning ZTE and Huawei equipment.
Step 3. Profit.
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Yeah, like who does Toddz think he is, a Governor or something?
Re: Money Making 3 Step Plan (Score:2)
Or not. Seen the pictures of 5 pipes attached to 5 blocks of wood for one of those gun buy back programs? He got paid. $100 per.
Well done America (Score:2)
I'll continue using my ZTE modem with the $10 gigabit internet subscription.
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Re: Well done America (Score:2)
Fascist.
Baby rapist and baby corpse eater.
See, every monkey can do that.
Now turn on your brain, if you still got one.
It is the law in China (Score:5, Informative)
https://www.theguardian.com/wo... [theguardian.com]
China's national intelligence law states that “any organisation and citizen” shall “support and cooperate in national intelligence work”.
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Re: It is the law in China (Score:2)
And yet companies keep hiring chinese foreign nationals for sensitive work. Go figure.
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https://www.theguardian.com/wo... [theguardian.com]
China's national intelligence law states that “any organisation and citizen” shall “support and cooperate in national intelligence work”.
And how is that different from the American NSL?
Is this really about security? (Score:1)
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Just another 5 weeks or so and it's over. We can go back to building our communication infrastructure with PLA designed hardware and stop all this interference with China.
Re: Is this really about security? (Score:2)
You mean like when HRC was secretary of state when the US shut down Mega Upload so a competitor could get market share? Or when the FDA banned the amino acid L-Tryptophan just a few days before intense media coverage of a newly approved Prozac?
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Re: Is this really about security? (Score:2)
No, not just as. *More so*.
Since rthe NSA is clearly more of a threat to American citizens than the Chinese equivalent that you don't even know the name of because it matters so little to you.
Re: Is this really about security? (Score:2)
Well duh.
Everything in America is always about ultimately profit, literally everything else be damned.
Even religion. And they are a theocracy too.
Lots of cheap/free hardware soon. (Score:2)
So it means that soon we'll be able to get lots of cheap/free Huawei & ZTE hardware for our home labs. Niiiice.