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Washington Redskins reportedly backed out of Huawei Wi-Fi deal because of government concerns
Another example of the US government's unease around Huawei — and efforts to keep the Chinese tech giant's influence at bay — was reported earlier this week by The Wall Street Journal. In 2014, Huawei reached a deal with the Washington Redskins to provide Wi-Fi in the viewing suites at FedEx Field during games, according to the story. But that agreement came undone after a government advisor issued an "unofficial federal complaint" to the team, citing the same national security concerns that Congress and US intelligence agencies have raised for several years running.
Huawei would have received advertising in the stadium and during Redskins game broadcasts in exchange for handling the Wi-Fi in suites; the Redskins never planned to directly give the company money as part of the deal, the Journal says. But the team was still spooked enough by the government's intervention to walk away from the partnership before it ever went forward.
The company tweeted about its excitement over the Wi-Fi agreement, which caught the eye of Michael Wessel, who the Journal says is "a member of a congressional research and advisory panel called the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission." Wessel turned to a "high-ranking government friend" and asked if they would contact and warn the Redskins about the possibility of espionage. As the Redskins are the home team of Washington, DC, Wessel was worried that government officials using the Huawei-powered Wi-Fi would be at risk. Redskins president Bruce Allen put an end to the deal immediately.
But the Redskins were at least partially aware of the controversy attached to Huawei when hammering out the deal. This exchange between Huawei officials — fully aware of the spying claims that the US has directed at the company — and Redskins executives is quite something:
During negotiations at Redskins headquarters, Huawei representatives were upfront about the national-security baggage that came along with its name, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
"Do you know who we are?" one Huawei representative asked, according to the person.
The person said a representative of the Redskins, which had long weathered criticism for sticking with a name and logo many consider racist, responded: "Do you know who we are?"
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday December 27 2018, @09:05PM
Even still, I'm not going to trust China. That is who you need to trust, not Huawei. Don't think for a split second that the government of China is not deeply embedded and involved in that corporation. Unlike Google that pulled out, a Chinese corporation is going to be fully on board with the surveillance state and assisting in the Great Firewall. That, and the Chinese people don't give two fucks about other countries IP. It's intrinsic to their political teachings to gather all the knowledge of the world up and use it for their people, putting their people first. Which isn't something unreasonable or difficult to understand, and does explain the massive (and successful) espionage campaigns that China has conducted against the US. RSA had their high level security products hacked by a nation state, and subsequently the US military-industrial complex was raided for its IP.
The only hardware that can be trusted at all, is completely open hardware. No blobs/binaries. That cavity probe you mention doesn't mean shit when blobs and binaries are involved. Did you forget how elegantly the NSA compromised a CSPRNG we all used for encryption? You may assume you can see everything a binary does, but I don't. A complete review of the source code is the only acceptable "cavity probbe".
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.