China in my LANs
Seeing as my own government spies on me already it does seem only good old British fair play to let the Chinese have a go as well.
Chancellor George Osborne has said the British government will happily let a state-owned Chinese firm manage Britain's communications infrastructure – as long as the People's Republic keeps on watching hit British telly series Downton Abbey. Osborne kow-towed to infamous network infrastructure biz Huawei during a speech to …
But surely if Huawei are spying on our packets, that's one less Export Osbourne has to thank them for... We can't exactly sell them our information if they're sniffing it themselves?
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This is a bandwagon jumping joke, just in case anyone important is reading this, and any thoughts expressed within, whether the actual opinion of the author or not, are intended as jest and not to be taken seriously - Please don't send the boys round Mr NSA/Huawei/GCHQ spook
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..were Big-Time Electronic Warfare/Defence R&D types from the 1940s to (at least) the 1980s, I would ask El Reg to emit the same crap demand about HP and China: China must stop HP selling stuff in China. That would reciprocate the Huawei Ban in Murika and the Prisoner's Island.
Don't like that, Anglos ? Then stop being knee-jerks.
Facts: Bill Hewlett was an important Pentagon man on Electronic Warfare R&D. Dave Packard was even deputy secretary of Defense. Lots of HP R&D was effectively paid by hot, shooting wars like the Vietnam one.
And who would you buy your networking kit from? I can only think of one or two companies that don't build their kit in Chinese factories, and one of those companies works hand in hand with a Government whose secret service has on several times used stolen British identities to assassinate people in foreign countries.
well if I was retarded then sure sourcing hardware would be easy. However when sourcing for any project you look at a vast array of things and "most secure" when nothing is secure is a pretty stupid way of going about it, as others have said if you want secure forget about the network layer. But for how many companies or nations is that the biggest issue? If you want to be secure turn you computer off, stick it in a block of concrete and drop it in the sea. If you want to do business look for the best deals, with the best support and the best implementation for what you're willing to pay, and know that if it looks to good to be true it probably is. Whether it's Chinese, or American gear it all has the same inherent likeliness of risk and threat to your business.
Believe anything else and you need to stop sniffing the fumes from your keyboard.
..maybe he is a realist and knows all the crimes of the "Land of the Free" (that one with the highest prisoner density worldwide). Maybe he thinks that "business" is better than war. Maybe he is not one of the Abrahamic-inspired madmen who wants to force his culture down the throat of others. Maybe he is not the Bush/BLiar kind of guy.
Ever thought about that possibility ?
1.) Don't trust ANY crappy network component. Cisco, Huawei, Dlink - all Extremely Shitty Security. Security costs time and money. Customers want cheap stuff with lots of blinkenlights.
2.) Use ssh, https/TLS(very secure if properly done with your own CA and so on) and the like to secure Computer-To-Computer communications.
3.) Expect the entire phone and Public internet to be wholly subverted by any number of people because of point 1.
4.) Lock your crap routers behind a Free Open Source Firewall to inspect outgoing traffic. And: DO LOOK at the log files.
Why do you think governments use end-to-end crypto ? Because even they can't trust their OWN phone network.
Actually, they called him " criminal of a thousand years". The implication being that his role was to subvert the process of returning Hong Kong.
I never really understood the " running dog" translation. More like " tail following dog" actually... so, in modern parlance, " poodle". Not at all what they accused Mr Patten of.
... is only interested in helping line the pockets of his rich mates whilst everyone else gets screwed. Hence why small investors only got a fraction of the shares they wanted in his massively underpriced Post Office sell-off, whilst the big institutions got all the shares they wanted and a tidy profit as the price rocketted!
PS interesting factoid: A professional dominatrix is about to publish a book which features George Osborne. A few days ago, out of the blue, she was raided by the Drugs Squad. Odd co-incidence, that...
See http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/13/natalie-rowe-mistress-pain-george-osborne_n_4093138.html fpr details.
I don't know how the UK stands in this regard but as far as I can tell the Chinese own the dollar, so if America want to kick up a big fuss or start getting lairy, China could just render their currency worthless overnight. In the light of that, seems a bit trifling to worry about a bit of network infrastructure really. They already own the US, might as well let them have a play with it if they want to.
That and the fact that the Chinese dont wear Kimonos the Japanese do; I hope the Chinese dont read the Register because they HATE the Japanese and get rather annoyed if Japanese customs are mistaken for their own.
The Chinese (Han), womans traditional dress is the Qipao; of which there are two hung in my wifes wardrobe (her being Chinese).
My biggest fear with the new relaxed visa rules for the Chinese is that my MIL may turn up on the doorstep; having her 8 1/2 thousand miles away was one of the big advantages of marrying a Chinese woman!!!
China State Enterprises welcome you with several RMB if you shill for PetroCHIna like Australia's previous Foreign Minister, or for Huawei like Australia's Foreign Minister before that .. do I detect a pattern here? And if you can print banknotes we have a first class ticket and DIplomatic passport for ou no questions asked.
It seems that Osborne is taking a gamble. Like em or not the tories inherited a duff economy, a load of debt and serious shortfall to balance the books, a bloated public sector, a population bribed heavily and unwilling to give up their vote buying bribes, lack of power generation, poor quality public services, front end public sector workers who were overworked and in some cases underpaid, the EU demands and people demanding jobs.
I dont agree with everything the tories have done (its a short list) but I have respect for his guts (or contempt for his will to sell out) to take the up and coming country in this world and instead of shunning them like others who cling to power, he welcomes trade. I hope his gamble pays off and we get more jobs, better education and improvements to the economy.