Posted on 09/18/2019 1:34:01 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
More Huawei defiance was aimed at U.S. President Trump on Sunday, but this time it was coming from much closer to home. Brad Smith, the President and Chief Legal Officer of America’s own Microsoft has criticized his government’s treatment of the Chinese tech giant—suggesting that the company’s U.S. supply chain restrictions should be revisited.
In an interview, Smith suggests that the action taken against Huawei should be revisited, ensuring that anything done has a “sound basis in fact, logic, and the rule of law.” He has seen this first-hand, when Microsoft has itself engaged with the U.S. bodies enforcing the restrictions. As has been reported, he explains, the justifications are thin and draped in inference and “need to know.”
“Oftentimes,” Smith told the newspaper, “what we get in response is, ‘well, if you knew what we knew, you would agree with us’.
September is set to be a significant month for Huawei as it prepares for life without access to the U.S. tech it has built its consumer business around. And now, as David Phelan reports for Forbes, all eyes are on the imminent launch of the Mate 30 Series to see just how Huawei intends to launch new products despite U.S. restrictions. An Android smartphone targeting the international market but lacking Gmail and Google Maps and access to the Play Store seems hard to imagine, but, as Phelan reports, that’s where Huawei now finds itself.
Following Trump’s meeting with President Xi, his Chinese counterpart in June, there was talk of exemptions for some of Huawei’s U.S. supply chain where national security concerns were not in play. This was confirmed by the Commerce Department—U.S. firms were encouraged to apply for licenses. But then the standoff hardened, and of the 100+ U.S. supplier applications none have reportedly been awarded.
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Restricting Huawei from using US parts accomplishes very little in the short run. In the long run there are only negatives as Huawei finds or develops substitutes.
Things are a lot more sophisticated now. For one thing, Huawei isn't selling us stuff like that or analogous to that. For another, we are selling parts to Huawei. Except now such sales to Huawei might be restricted, foolishly.
BS. That is total crap. The USA needs to embargo all Chinese made electronics and tariff electronic imports to the USA so the USA can HAVE an electronics industry again.
[Restricting Huawei from using US parts accomplishes very little in the short run. In the long run there are only negatives as Huawei finds or develops substitutes.]
Bill Gates is one of the biggest POS to every walk the face of the earth and I see his spawn Microshaft hasn’t changed.
Forebes, one of the Cheap Labor Express’s media of record.
From what I understand, it is really difficult to circumvent hardware-based vulnerabilities. Viruses can be deleted from Storage but is not so easy to deal with when it’s ingrained in the hardware.
With so many WiFi hotspots, I rarely use 4G.
Why is 5G so important if 4G is so rarely used?
Yup. What was it Lenin said about capitalists and rope?
‘When time comes to hang the capitalists, the Capitalists themselves will sell the rope for that.’
—VI Lenin
That sounds pretty close to what I'd like to have, but the whole Chinese military connection is a bit off-putting...
What’s been a bigger problem for US gov computer network security over the last 30 years, Huawei or all holes in Microsoft products?
Microsoft Pulls Huawei Server Products, Laptop Following US Ban (05/23/2019)
I just loaded Linux Mint on my desktop after my hard drive crashed. It was windows 7 and the files were backed up, so no big deal. I found out I’d need to shell out $69 bucks for a download, and it’s being phased out.
It was amazingly simple to install Mint. It’s smooth as chocolate on my 5+ year old Lenovo tower. It’s free—well, it probably has tracking bugs and the like. The name “Google” shows up for searches. I expect it will take some time to de-louse it. But Windows does that too.
I think Microsoft and Apple sauce are in trouble.
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