Belgian Intelligence Puts Huawei on Its Watchlist (politico.eu) 23
Belgium's intelligence service is scrutinizing the operations of technology giant Huawei as fears of Chinese espionage grow around the EU and NATO headquarters in Brussels, according to confidential documents seen by POLITICO and three people familiar with the matter. From the report: In recent months, Belgium's State Security Service (VSSE) has requested interviews with former employees of the company's lobbying operation in the heart of Brussels' European district. The intelligence gathering is part of security officials' activities to scrutinize how China may be using non-state actors -- including senior lobbyists in Huawei's Brussels office -- to advance the interests of the Chinese state and its Communist party in Europe, said the people, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter. The scrutiny of Huawei's EU activities comes as Western security agencies are sounding the alarm over companies with links to China. British, Dutch, Belgian, Czech and Nordic officials -- as well as EU functionaries -- have all been told to stay off TikTok on work phones over concerns similar to those surrounding Huawei, namely that Chinese security legislation forces Chinese tech firms to hand over data. The scrutiny also comes amid growing evidence of foreign states' influence on EU decision-making -- a phenomenon starkly exposed by the recent Qatargate scandal, where the Gulf state sought to influence Brussels through bribes and gifts via intermediary organizations. The Belgian security services are tasked with overseeing operations led by foreign actors around the EU institutions.
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This is a result of "lobby by the USA" to secure their interrest _and_ should also be banned IMHO.
Don't forget USA has only 4% while China has 18% of all 8 Billion but does or it is the smartes and biggest of the whole world.
Surrendering to Dorothy? (Score:2)
You don't have to propagate the diversive Subject. And as a topic recovery, you also went to zilch.
My topical thought remains that bans and watchlists are basically surrender documents. Huawei is or is becoming too technically strong and dangerous for us to fight against or even try to deal with. Now I even think I was deluded to have thought the technical experts were smart enough to find the threats because the so-called experts are adopting the ostrich solution. Head in the sand is another trick that nev
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Huawei is or is becoming too technically strong and dangerous for us to fight against or even try to deal with.
Huawei owns less than 16 percent of 5G patents. While that is more than any other single corporation (Qualcomm, #2, has less than 12%) it's hardly an emergency. A bigger concern is whether you can trust the hardware.
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Slow response but been busy... I don't think that the patent percentage matters much. The key question is whether Huawei (or Huawei in concert with "politically reliable" sources) can offer complete 5G solutions that compete with or even outperform the alternatives. In a money-dominated system, all other factors tend to get ignored or discounted relative to price.
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So apparently 1 Delaware = 2.5x Luxembourg (by area) or 1 Delaware = 1.5 Luxembourg (by population).
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Nobel Prize in Politics (Score:4, Informative)
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Roland Reagan predicted it 40 years ago. At least.
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Interesting... (Score:2)
Encrypt Everything (Score:2)
So did we somehow forget the fact that everything is now encrypted? Or did Huawei somehow have the technology to decrypt SSL/TLS traffic in realtime? I mean isn't this why everyone wants to move to end-to-end encryption? Or are we suddenly afraid of the very encryption that we're all using?
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If I could render aes128 obsolete I wouldn’t tell anyone.
If everyone was futzing around with 1000 qbit machines and I had a 3000qbit machine capable of breaking aes128 I would definitely pretend I was still futzing around at 1000 like everyone else.
If I was China I might even telegraph that I was interested in stealing everyone else’s inferior tech so they’d all pile on security slowing development even further.
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The only problem with SNDL is the amount of data you need to save and it's speed.
Finally! (Score:2)
Finally, I was afraid the EU would simply not do this because the US already did it and evil orange man was somehow involved at one point so the whole EU for some reason is obligated to throw their hands up, laugh about agent orange, and then do the opposite. Irregardless of the facts.
This behavior for over a decade landed Germany straight in the fangs of RuSSian gas⦠and Schroeder gets to enjoy cushy board jobs, and Angie Merkel could skate free on his legacy and do as little as possible.
Hand over data (Score:3)
Chinese security legislation forces Chinese tech firms to hand over data
So does US's patriot act and could act...
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So does US's patriot act and could act...
* Patrriot Act --> In 2015, the European Court of Justice cancelled the EU-US privacy shield over the Patriot Act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] A new version called Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework has been signed by Biden and is being in process of approval at the EU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
* Cloud Act --> Since 2021 France and Germany are now pushing the EU is working on regulations that exclude USA from critical services. https://www.politico.eu/articl... [politico.eu]