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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.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Tuesday September 10 2019, @05:54PM (2 children)
>When Microsoft asked US lawmakers to explain the threat [from Huawei], they've been too vague for Smith's liking.
"with less than 100% documented hardware platform, you cannot have a secure system" is indeed vague but true enough.
But, does that matter to a Microsoft user? yes. Because holes in the hull do not cancel each others out. Adding ways you can be spied upon is still bad.
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(Score: 2) by pipedwho on Tuesday September 10 2019, @09:31PM (1 child)
But, that is true for just about any complex hardware. Especially since most of the parts are made in China anyway.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday September 10 2019, @10:02PM
True, this is why hardware and IT is a strategic sector. In fact, the outsourcing itself says nations have already been swallowed by the one system. We always been at war with eastasia. Yet my point that a vague reason is not a bad reason stands.
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