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I think the nature of modern hardware and the necessity to audit hardware firmwares for critical infrastructure use is a very real issue in our times. Unfortunately IP zealots have made this more difficult as the need increases, not less.
Originally Posted by Agent
I'd rather have the Chinese planting a bug in my phone than the Americans.
Indeed. But neither is ideal. More importantly, it's less a thing of China listening in on dear ole granny talking about the family recipe for dumplings, and more one of having a back door to our infrastructure. It'd be awfully easy for them to black out a national grid just prior to an invasion, say.
I can't see them actually wanting to bother to wage a war with any western countries, but it still can put us at a serious strategical disadvantage to not bother to guarantee the security of our infrastructure.
Agreed. It's a security issue, but I also can't see them wanting war. After all, why go to wear with something you already own? They just need to call in their loans.
Noli nothis permittere te terere.
I think there might be a hint of the "yellow peril" here TBH,which benefits US based companies during a recession.
Of course "if" the Chinese are using backdoors and bugs,then of course the same could be said of any US equipment too!!
I think it is far more likely that American hardware would be used for subversive means. After all they are the rulers of the world, aren't they?
They may not want to wage a war with any Western countries, but the US is allies with Japan and a couple other countries China has territorial disputes with, including, unofficially, Taiwan (a dispute itself).
The US technically has a legal obligation to defend Taiwan if China was to mount an invasion. But while I think that China still value national pride enough to take control of the island at costs higher than the value of the island (including it's strategic position), I doubt that the US will defend the island at all cost. China's military modernisation does seem aimed at deterring the US from acting (carrier killer, anti-satellite, cyber warfare), rather than wiping out the West.
Besides, I think that a fair amount of Europe is actually sympathetic towards China, and willing to lift the arms embargo. I can't see the UK, which gave back/away Hong Kong to bother with Taiwan unless under huge amount of US pressure.
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