US Senators Urge Barring Huawei, ZTE From $1.9 Trillion Govt Funding Measure (reuters.com) 27
Two U.S. senators on Wednesday said they are introducing a measure to prohibit funds in a $1.9 trillion government funding measure from being used to purchase Chinese telecommunications equipment from Huawei and ZTE and others deemed U.S. security threats. From a report: Senators Tom Cotton, a Republican, and Mark Warner, a Democrat, said the funds that were approved in March in a law known as the American Rescue Plan should not be used to potentially undermine U.S. telecommunications networks.
As a taxpayer.... (Score:1)
... I'm good with this.
I'm not a big fan of Tom Cotton (in fact, he could die a fiery death in a volcano and my only lament would be the added CO2 added to the atmosphere) and I am *still* good with this.
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I'd rather battle the enemy I know (NSA, CIA, etc.) than the enemy I don't know. At least with US made equipment 1) Money stays in the US 2) I *KNOW* who put the backdoors in the system (NSA, CIA, 5-Eyes, and Israel) and 3) I have a *chance* of getting a congresscritter and the courts to tell them to knock it off. Not so with the Chinese.
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No you have no chance to do anything, ongoing for years and no end planned.
The chinese have zero interest in you or your activities, meanwhile your own government has desire to have control and leverage on you.
China isn't spying on you, that's just paranoia.
Your US government is spying on you, that is established fact.
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China isn't spying on you, that's just paranoia.
Says the MSS agent.
I bet you think there's nothing to worry about China with AI research; that's just paranoia too, huh? /s
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Oh so you like USA gear with NSA spyware installed
That concern is moot. If the US government wants to spy on citizens within its own borders, there's nothing technical stopping it from doing so, regardless of where the parts come from. Whether the equipment is "Proudly built in America" or "Made in China", the US government has the same authority (or lack thereof) to mandate backdoors and enforce compliance.
At which point the only question is whether you want to give a foreign government that doesn't have that authority the ability to place backdoors. For
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in fact, he could die a fiery death in a volcano and my only lament would be the added CO2 added to the atmosphere
He wouldn't really add a significant amount of carbon to the atmosphere, and burning him on the planet surface is not the real ecological problem. The problem is taking sequestered carbon from beneath the earth's surface and releasing it into the atmosphere, which is what drilling for petroleum and burning it in your car does.
So don't hold back! Go ahead and hope Tom Cotton dies a fiery death in a volcano, and you can do it guilt free!
Wiretap. (Score:4, Insightful)
Senators Tom Cotton, a Republican, and Mark Warner, a Democrat, said the funds that were approved in March in a law known as the American Rescue Plan should not be used to potentially undermine U.S. telecommunications networks.
Yeah, let us do that using american companies and equipment.
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I would expect any country to act in it's own interests.
Our responsive to Covid (and before that 9/11) have already demonstrated that Americans are perfectly willing to sacrifice personal freedom and privacy as long as we feel like it will give us some kind of security. In fact, not only will we sacrifice, we will publicly ridicule and shame those that disagree with that forced sacrifice.
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The ridiculing is only of people that don't seem to understand that living is important, and that their right to freedom stops when it endangers the health of others.
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If you are comparing the amount of freedom we have when dead, then we can just get rid of all freedoms.
Protecting that NSA advantage (Score:3)
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If you are a US business, you are more likely to fear China stealing your technology than the US government.
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It's common sense (Score:3, Insightful)
You don't allow the enemy to plant compromised equipment on your own internal network. Clearly, China hates the West and all concepts of freedom and democracy - they are spending billions every year just to destabilize the US and EU.
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China hates the West and all concepts of freedom and democracy
I'll concede that notion.
they are spending billions every year just to destabilize the US and EU.
No they do that to improve its financial competitive position, and a weaker US & EU means they are more secure from attack from them.
Don't we have 100 senators? (Score:2)
2 senators even being from different parties is hardly a news story. Until their proposals gain some traction, I would say lets see.
We also have 535 house members, I also find it interesting how the news (from both political sides) goes crazy when a small number of vocal members are politically extremist.
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Senators make the news more often than not because they are working on a topic relevant to a committee they are an actively participating member of. In this case Senator Warner is the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and as a consequence by far the most influential member of the Senate with regard to anything the committee deals with. Senator Cotton is a member of the same committee.
The division of labor is important - it means that every member of Congress isn't responsible for coming up with
Remember how it started (Score:1)
Accusations, protectionism, nationalism. Now everybody only remembers China=bad.
Simple as ABC (Score:1)
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ABC - Always Be Closing.
Why not? (Score:1)