The key question is this -— Does Huawei marches in lock-step with the Chinese Communist Party, their military, political and police-state apparatus?
If so, we ought to be extra careful. Huawei manufactures the hardware that enables the 5G network to operate.
Intentionally built in to that hardware could be Trojan Horses, the ability to spy, to monitor, and indeed, even to hack into our most secret agencies.
If we are not careful, this technology can sabotage our systems, for example, at a critical moment, by “turning off” our ability to communicate between our agencies, including our military units worldwide.
Next question -— Huawei denies any intention, or any ability, to do this. CAN THEY BE TRUSTED?
From what I have read, Huawei is, for all intents and purposes, owned by the Chinese military.
It’s true that cameras and microphones can be very tiny and cheap, and connecting them wirelessly into a network is also cheap. Yes the final result is that we’re being watched and listened to more and more.
And there’s facial recognition, and possibly voice recognition.
And our personal devices are running software that can have all sorts of bad things hidden in it.
The guy has a point.
The answer is yes !
Foreign companies in China are required to turn over their technology in order to conduct business in China.
They also have installed a 30 year plan, and anticipate becoming world dominate 'Super power', replacing the USA by 2030.
Business corporations and politics are all one in China; they are inseparable.
Huawei is excluded from any US comms infrastructure and we’re in the process of apply great pressure on all allies to do the same.
They are but ONE 5G manufacturer of at least 10.
Hauwei is NOT building the 5G backbone, thanks to Donald Trump.
That’s only one key question. (And the answer to it is yes, they do—all the Chinese tech companies are that way.)
But why are we putting this outside and above every home in America, when it is a much more risky technology from health, surveillance and control levels by far than even what we have out there to date?
Terrible idea. Trump’s pushing it and looking to even fund parts of it is very unfortunate. Unfortunately the info that reaches him while in office is too easily and carefully controlled as a means of controlling him.
Split ‘intelligence’ funding in half - one half to allow the boys to play cowboys and Indians with Russians and other ‘spy vs spy’ cartoon crap - - and the other half to DO STUFF - ACT - SOLVE PROBLEMS NOT JUST IDENTIFY THEM.
This is insane. Take action: Harden the grid, stop our enemies from getting jobs in top research facilities, close down ‘replacement parts’ for tech stuff used to spy on us... Build our own stuff... stop teaching the children of foreign intelligence in our University systems.
Or we can learn to build and use Grandma's old wood stove...