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https://www.nrk.no/norge/huawei-kan-bli-utestengt-fra-norsk-5g-utbygging-1.14373969
Han sier Norge vurderer å slutte seg til andre vestlige land og nekte kinesiske Huawei å bygge infrastruktur for 5G-nettet, den neste generasjonen mobilnett.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/world/asia/china-change-4-moon.html
landing a vehicle on the far side of the moon for the first time in history
https://e24.no/boers-og-finans/teknologi/regjeringen-vurderer-tiltak-som-kan-ramme-huawei/24518264
Det kinesiske selskapet har levert nettverksutstyr til både Telia og Telenor, mens Ice bruker Nokia i sin utbygging av 4G-nettet.
An intelligence official said that subcontractors across the entire military were lagging behind in cybersecurity and frequently suffered breaches that affected other branches.
Head of MI6 had questioned Chinese firm’s involvement in UK telecoms infrastructure
Ansip said he was concerned because Chinese technology companies were required to cooperate with Chinese intelligence services, such as on “mandatory back doors” to allow access to encrypted data.
https://www.economist.com/business/2018/12/07/why-does-5g-have-everyone-worried-about-huawei
Western spooks have mused publicly about the risk that Huawei’s kit might be siphoning valuable data back to Beijing, or that it comes with “back doors”
It navigates interruptions and other tricky features of human conversation to field millions of requests a day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/technology/huawei-arrest-meng-wanzhou.html
China sees the company as a pivotal driver of its ambitions for global technological leadership. Increasingly, much of the rest of the world sees it as a potential conduit for espionage and sabotage.
Canada has arrested the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies, who now faces extradition to the United States on suspicion she violated U.S. trade sanctions against Iran.
Cities across China have debuted crime-fighting facial recognition technology to much fanfare over the past year. But some of these jaywalker-busting devices aren’t as impressive as they seem.
https://apnews.com/4997bb7aa36c45449b488e19ac83e86d
If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics.
Many mainstream scientists think it’s too unsafe to try, and some denounced the Chinese report as human experimentation.
By the end of May, people with bad credit in China have been blocked from booking more than 11 million flights and 4 million high-speed train trips
https://www.wsj.com/articles/washington-asks-allies-to-drop-huawei-1542965105
U.S. worried about potential Chinese meddling in 5G networks
One U.S. concern centers on the use of Chinese telecom equipment in countries that host American military bases
“Chinese espionage services used telecommunications giant Huawei’s staff to get access codes to infiltrate a foreign network.”
The attack took place within the last two years.
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/11/01/asia/internet-freedom-china-censorship-intl/index.html
the internet is an excellent tool for social control, enabling surveillance and guiding of public opinion that would have been impossible in the past.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv9npv/bloomberg-china-supermicro-apple-hack
No one is really sure who to believe after Businessweek’s bombshell story on an alleged Chinese supply chain attack against Apple, Amazon, and others.
An Icelandic startup called Aha is using a Chinese-made drone and an Israeli logistics system to deliver hot food, groceries, and electronics to households in Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik.