In article <20211114073934.4a6b2640@ryz>, Marco Moock <
mo01@posteo.de> wrote: >Am Sat, 13 Nov 2021 20:43:43 +0000 (UTC)
schrieb Moderator ><telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.remove-this.remove-this.telecom-digest.org>:
The legislation, Secure Equipment Act of 2021, will require the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt new rules that
clarify it will no longer review or approve any authorisation
applications for networking equipment that pose national security
threats.
That's interesting. They don't want Huawei in that position, but Cisco
and Sony are fine (maybe because these are American companies that can
[be controlled by] their government).
The PRC government implements a policy of military-industrial fusion,
wherein "national champion" industrial firms provide support for the
military and in return the government's external spy agencies perform industrial espionage to support those firms. The US intelligence
establishment believes that this "support" on the part of
telecommunications companies includes secret remote access and/or data exfiltration functions that can be invoked by the PRC intelligence
apparatus.
(It's perhaps worth noting here that the Chinese *state* does not have
a military. The People's Liberation Army is the military department
of the Chinese Communist Party, not the state, and to the extent these
are hard to distinguish it is because China is a one-party state. But
the PLA is answerable to Party leadership and not the government, to
the extent these differ.)
-GAWollman
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