While a lot of the things coming out of the present administration are hot air, Huawei have links (and have acknowledged) to Chinese state security services. They have claimed they would defy orders to give Chinese security services access to network infrastructure built on their hardware, you need to ask yourself, would you defy any state's security services, especially if the state had a record like the Chinese state? They are undoubtedly being punished as part of a far larger anti China narrative and no doubt somewhat unjustly but there are what seem to be reasonable grounds for it. What you should ask yourself is if the acceptable manufacturers of network infrastructure and associated equipment are more or less likely to bow down to state requests from their own government's security services (or If indeed they already have done)? On Mon, 27 May 2019, 12:50 Lyle Hazelwood, wrote: > Greetings all, > > Notably [OT], and hopefully avoiding any political. > > Huawei has been banned from doing business in the U.S.. From here, I > can find only peripheral reasons why this might have happened, but no > hard cause. > > I was surprised to find them the second largest cell phone maker. > > I'd like to think something as big as this would require some > evidence, but all I can find here is suspicion about their "ties to > the Chinese government".. > > Sadly, I'm in a country where accurate information is getting harder > to find. Are they really as scary as our current government wants us > to believe? > > Thanks, > Lyle > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .