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Best Buy will cut ties with Huawei and stop selling Huawei products over the next few weeks. Huawei's smartphones, such as its new flagship Mate 10 Pro, are sold in the U.S. by retailers, but no U.S. wireless service provider will sell them. Now the largest electronics retailer in the U.S. is calling it quits:
The move, after similar actions from U.S. carriers including AT&T Inc, comes as U.S. scrutiny of Chinese tech firms grows amid simmering tensions over U.S.-China trade and concerns of security.
[...] Earlier this year, AT&T was forced to scrap a plan to offer Huawei handsets after some members of Congress lobbied against the idea with federal regulators, sources told Reuters. Verizon Communications Inc also ended its plans to sell Huawei phones last year, according to media reports.
Last month two Republican Senators introduced legislation that would block the U.S. government from buying or leasing telecommunications equipment from Huawei or Chinese peer ZTE Corp, citing concern the firms would use their access to spy on U.S. officials.
Previously: U.S. Lawmakers Urge AT&T to Cut Ties With Huawei
Verizon Cancels Plans to Sell Huawei Phone Due to U.S. Government Pressure
U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products
The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday March 22 2018, @11:26PM (1 child)
Who needs tariffs, when you've got fearmongering ?
(Score: -1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 22 2018, @11:46PM
...he said, while eagerly waiting for his rancid rectum to be filled with sticky goodies from afar. Fear not, for you need not wait any longer! Cum forth, my fetid friend! Fire your cockpoles like a howitzer! Fire them into his rectal womb!
Fire! Fire! Fire!!!
What...no, it cannot be! Is this truly the mythical, legendary feces soup!?!?!? Such a thing...!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Gaaark on Friday March 23 2018, @12:30AM (2 children)
Windows is the security nightmare of the century, but that's okay to sell.
I say tax the hell out of MS so they move to China, then ban the feck out of Windows and solve your security problems.
Ta-dah! It's like magic.
Hoo-wah is probably a smaller security problem if only the Chinese government is hacking it. EVERYONE is hacking Windows, the Chinese government included.
THINK, man. THINK!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday March 23 2018, @12:36AM (1 child)
It's *our* security nightmare.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday March 23 2018, @12:44AM
Well, could you lock it up, please. It keeps playing in my toilet and getting water EVERYWHERE!
:)
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(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday March 23 2018, @12:42AM (1 child)
Not a hot war
Not a cold war
A trade war!
Kind-of a luke-warm war?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/mar/18/trump-on-path-full-scale-trade-war-first-china-then-europe [theguardian.com]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Friday March 23 2018, @01:03AM
I heard that trade wars are good, and easy to win, so don't you worry about that.
I am writing this from a 5 eyes nation whose major internet infrastructure is almost entirely made by Huawei. With that being the case, I'm pretty sure the US would have kicked up a real fuss if there was any danger involved, and we would have bought Cisco (or whatever the alternative is.)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by arcz on Friday March 23 2018, @12:43AM (5 children)
Fear: Evil chinese phones!!
Reality: You should be more worried about the government trying to surpress speech enabling devices. There is no proof these spy on you. The government wants to control your speech and force you to use devices that can be subject to illegal fisa secret court gag orders. (devices made in the US)
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 23 2018, @07:59AM (1 child)
Well, to be precise, there is no evidence that they spy on you any more than the average spyphone.
(Score: 2) by arcz on Sunday March 25 2018, @04:43PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 23 2018, @06:23PM (2 children)
Are ANY phones made in the US?
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Friday March 23 2018, @10:47PM (1 child)
In two minutes of Google-fu, I found the following American cell phone manufacturers: Apple, Motorola and Nokia--er, Microsoft Mobile. None of these companies make phones in North America.
Another minute of Googling led me to this list [wikipedia.org], but none of the United States companies listed seem to be notable in that category.
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(Score: 2) by arcz on Sunday March 25 2018, @04:46PM
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 23 2018, @12:51AM
Yes, this is the solution, not having phones that run on 100% free software and are fully controlled by the user so that anyone can see what they're doing. No. The real solution is to stop selling proprietary phones made by a specific company from a certain country. Surely you'll be safe and sound now, especially from your own government which also utilizes backdoors. Pay no attention to the fact that countless components commonly used in cellphones made by other companies are also made in China.
These people focus on the dumbest things imaginable while completely ignoring the fundamental issues.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 23 2018, @01:15AM (2 children)
Smells like the noise the US fedgov made about some Russian-produced anti-malware software and how it was probably evil and full of nastiness and no one should use it - when a more reasonable explanation is that the Russian-based company couldn't be arsed to whitelist fedgov malware.
Still, I doubt Huawei makes many products where the purchaser is the actual owner of the hardware, so forgive me if my eyes are still dry.
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Friday March 23 2018, @04:44AM (1 child)
I once had a phone interview with huawei (sf bay area). one question that they asked me stood out in my mind, 'why do you want to work for a chinese company?'. hey, I just wanted to WORK, I cared less about who it was, at the time. (sometimes its like that, especially as you get older and the choices are less, for you). but I was asked why I'd work for a chinese company; not THEIR company but a chinese one. that seemed odd to me.
they never did call me back and I guess I wasn't enough to their liking. go figure.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday March 23 2018, @05:48AM
The answer: "I want to cut out the middleman!"
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