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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 30 2018, @10:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the thwart-facilitate-Chinese-US-government-spying dept.

Trump security team sees building U.S. 5G network as option

President Donald Trump's national security team is looking at options to counter the threat of China spying on U.S. phone calls that include the government building a super-fast 5G wireless network, a senior administration official said on Sunday. The official, confirming the gist of a report from Axios.com, said the option was being debated at a low level in the administration and was six to eight months away from being considered by the president himself.

The 5G network concept is aimed at addressing what officials see as China's threat to U.S. cyber security and economic security. [...] "We want to build a network so the Chinese can't listen to your calls," the senior official told Reuters. "We have to have a secure network that doesn't allow bad actors to get in. We also have to ensure the Chinese don't take over the market and put every non-5G network out of business."

[...] Major wireless carriers have spent billions of dollars buying spectrum to launch 5G networks, and it is unclear if the U.S. government would have enough spectrum to build its own 5G network. [...] Another option includes having a 5G network built by a consortium of wireless carriers, the U.S. official said. "We want to build a secure 5G network and we have to work with industry to figure out the best way to do it," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Axios published documents it said were from a presentation from a National Security Council official. If the government built the network, it would rent access to carriers, Axios said.

Will it include "responsible encryption"?

Also at Newsweek and Axios.

Related: U.S. Lawmakers Urge AT&T to Cut Ties With Huawei


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 31 2018, @09:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 31 2018, @09:51AM (#630887)

    The MiG-35 is almost as much of a boondoggle as the F-35. It must be the number 35. The MiG-35 is really just a rehash of the MiG-29, which is basically equivalent to an F-18. Most of the high-tech features it was supposed to have ended up not working. At best, it's the equal of the Super Hornet. The Su-57 will probably equal the F-22... if it ever gets built. The Russians probably won't even have as many of those as we do of the F-22, and they certainly won't have enough to export them.

    The real competition for the F-35 is the Chinese J-20. The F-35 tries to do too many different things. The Navy, Marines, and Air Force (and the NATO equivalents) all have different requirements and they pull in different directions. The F-35 is like trying to produce bacon and chicken breasts from the same animal. You just get a pig that can't fly. The Chinese don't have that problem. The J-20 is simply a land-based multi-role fighter, the same thing people have been building since the 1960s, designed and built with the latest technology. It doesn't spend space and weight carrying around provisions for lift fans and carrier landing gear that it doesn't really need. It is a better fighter, and it costs less, and it's going to be available in greater numbers. American pilots may still be better trained, but that's no comfort to export customers. The F-35 should have been cancelled the moment it became obvious that combining every single possible mission into one airplane was not going to work. Which should have been about five seconds after someone first had the idea, but as soon as the design studies were finished would have been good enough.