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Nothing, just like nothing will happen to the outlets who are currently pushing this "Huwai is spying on everybody" narrative with not an ounce of evidence for it except for unfounded and unsourced claims by FiveEyes intelligence services [0].

Afaik that whole Bloomberg/Super Micro thing was similarly set up, referring to "anonymous intelligence/industry services", not even naming the company that supposedly did the security audit.

People have to realize that these kinds of narratives are often pushed by parties in the West, with a vested interest, just as much as it happens in the supposedly "propaganda riddled" East.

It's for those same reasons that the amendments to the Smith-Mundson act, which happened back in 2013, haven't seen any widespread attention or even mention anywhere in the mainstream [1] because the good guys don't do "propaganda", they do "interventions" [2] and "information campaigns" [3].

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/afa7fd54-79b1-11e8-bc55-50daf11b7...

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...

[3] https://vimeo.com/67739294

parent freeflight 8 years ago

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