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posted by janrinok on Tuesday September 10 2019, @01:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the can't-tell-you,-it's-secret dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

When Microsoft asked US lawmakers to explain the threat [from Huawei], they've been too vague for Smith's liking. Huawei is a major customer of his company: Its laptops come with Microsoft's Windows operating system.

"Oftentimes, what we get in response is, 'Well, if you knew what we knew, you would agree with us'," Smith told Bloomberg. "And our answer is, 'Great, show us what you know so we can decide for ourselves. That's the way this country works.' " 

[...] Smith, who's also Microsoft's chief legal officer, said his company argued that the department should limit its ban to sales that pose national security risks, such as universities with Chinese military links -- an approach he compared to a "scalpel" rather than its current "meat cleaver" method.

Neither Huawei nor the White House immediately responded to requests for comment.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday September 10 2019, @01:42PM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday September 10 2019, @01:42PM (#892200)

    Scalpels don't whip up the base, meat cleavers do. I'm guessing there's a hope that the threat of the meat cleaver will force the appearance of compliance, the way the Prez is swinging that meat cleaver he's risking cutting off his own dick.

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  • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday September 10 2019, @02:55PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 10 2019, @02:55PM (#892224) Journal

    Oh, poor Toad [thecut.com]

  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 10 2019, @05:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 10 2019, @05:18PM (#892272)

    ...the way the Prez is swinging that meat cleaver he's risking cutting off his own dick.

    According to Stormy Daniels, that's an exteremely small risk.