The US has been trying to reign in China’s thefts of intellectual property and other bad behavior by putting tech sanctions on them. The next president wants to increase sanctions on China. Will it work? Huawei, China’s leading phone maker was seriously impacted over the last 2-3 years over the restriction of US made chips. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Biden Admin Moves to Halt All Exports to Huawei The Biden administration is continuing to tighten the grip on China. The feds have stopped approving licenses for the export of most items to Huawei, according to the Financial Times. The end game is for a total ban on sales to Huawei. Credit: BBC Popular Derivatives […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CEO of Election Software Company Arrested on Personal-Data Theft Charges Here here is one that seems to have some facts behind it. Los Angeles has charged Konnect founder Eugene Yu with theft of PII and computer hard drives. Konnect is required to keep the data on POLL WORKERS that they are storing in the United […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Just call me dumb. For the last couple of years the feds have been claiming that Chinese equipment manufacturers like Huawei pose a national security risk to the United States. I really didn’t understand this since all the data transmitted over the cellular network is encrypted, so what is the problem. First, in theory, after […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]At the tail end of the Trump administration, Congress passed a bill to get telecom carriers to remove Huawei network equipment from their networks as a national security issue – which it may well be. Congress allocated a billion plus dollars to help small telecom providers with the costs of doing that. The FCC thought […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In March of 2020 Donald Trump signed a bill requiring rural telecom companies to replace suspected vulnerable Huawei telecom equipment. The government would even pay for the replacement. For whatever reason, the Trump administration never did anything to make that happen. Finally, 18 months later (if this is really a security threat, shouldn’t something have […]
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