RE: Anarcho-capitalist libertarianism
December 4, 2022 at 9:40 pm
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2022 at 9:42 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(December 3, 2022 at 2:37 pm)Aegon Wrote:(December 3, 2022 at 8:47 am)Belacqua Wrote: I was interested to learn recently that electronics giant Huawei is socialist -- it is wholly owned by its employees. Its founder has only a 1.7% share.
This is one of the reasons the US has been working to block them through unfair trade practices -- for example imprisoning their CFO on bogus charges. It's because the US doesn't like it when the workers make the profits, rather than Wall Street investment types.
The other reason is that the US spy agencies want back door access to all electronic communications (as Edward Snowden revealed) and Huawei doesn't play along.
This might be true to an extent, but it is most definitely not the primary reason they're looking to regulate them in the US. Huawei devices are essentially Chinese spyware, and anyone who is using one of their devices has their information compromised. Nobody with a security clearance can have a Huawei device or have a TikTok account for a reason.
The notion that every piece of Huaiwai hardware is spyware demand suspension of disbelief on par with believing genesis, since no western analyst has yet managed to identify any feature on any huaiwei hardware or firmware that clearly consititute any specific risk. It may be possible that in some very high end hardware, such as routers or switchers, the firmware is so labyrinthine that spyware functionality can survive undetected for some time against the closest scrutiny. But to imagine Huaiwei is so good that they can hide spyware everywhere across all their gadgets, including low end consumer gadgets such as smart phones, and not even the best analysts in the west can find any of them is plainly ridiculous. In any case, even if they are that good, this kind of skill can only work for so long before general state of security analysis catches up. So the ideal that they can hide them everywhere and not only can no one find them when they first came out, but no one can find them years later is even more ridiculous, if indeed there is room for more.