Huawei's Cloud Services Find Government Buyers (axios.com) 11
Chinese telecom giant Huawei is finding plenty of government buyers for its cloud services despite growing suspicion of the company, according to new data compiled by the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Reconnecting Asia Project. From a report: Middle-income countries without strong civil freedoms are the most common customers for Huawei's cloud and e-government services. By the numbers: CSIS researchers found 70 agreements in 41 countries between governments (or state-owned enterprises) and Huawei. 77% of those agreements occurred in countries that Freedom House has ranked as either "not free" or "partly free," such as Saudi Arabia and Zambia.
How dare Huawei steal our customers! (Score:2)
Of course what stuck me in the eye was the mention of Saudi Arabia.
Overall Huawei strikes me as an extremely thoughtful, patient, and dangerous adversary. Even when they are forced to compete relatively openly in public markets, there is probably a lot going on behind the scenes (or any other place they can hide stuff).
Usual disclaimer required: I am a satisfied and repeat customer of Huawei hardware. But my theory is that their consumer electronics devices are getting lots of scrutiny by real security expe
Free advertising (Score:4, Interesting)
The US government ban is, in some ways, the kind of advertising you just can't buy. If the US hates it then it must be good for other states that are on the naughty list, right?
If i have to choose (Score:1)
Between being tracked, monitored and spied on by the us or by china, i honestly prefer china.
The reason is simple: china has literally no interest in whatever i do and pretty much no influence in my life. Even if i did something illegal and china would find it out, they would simply ignore it. I don't care about them, and they do me the favor to not care about me. This is not true with the us which has several ways to interfere in my life (ask Assange) of they deem that what i do or say is somehow against t
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A variation of the same "lesser evil" argument in my earlier comment on this story. However the problem with your version is that China might become interested in you and then go to Huawei for the dirt. Huawei would cooperate with the government, just as American companies cooperate with the government.
So I think the best solution approach is smaller government, but that is predicated on smaller companies. Which is completely against the modern trends. It's kind of weird, because I can imagine that the gove
Makes sense (Score:2, Interesting)
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Interesting that the Saudis are on the list though, I think they also use Azure.
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growing suspicion = western FUD (Score:1)
So far there's been no evidence provided to anybody that shows Huawei isn't trustworthy.
However, there's been SO much to show that Western infrastructure isn't trustworthy it's ridiculous. Most obviously starting with the Heartbleed backdoor *cough* bug *cough*.
Right now I would consider replacing all of my clients infrastructure with Huawei not because it's Huawei - but because over and over again the regular vendors have shown to be incompetent, unreliable and in some cases, working hand in hand with west