On May 13, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patr...@ianai.net> wrote: > > - Warning the world about Chinese surveillance could have been one of > the motives behind the US government's claims that Chinese devices > cannot be trusted. But an equally important motive seems to have been > preventing Chinese devices from supplanting American-made ones, which > would have limited the NSA's own reach. In other words, Chinese > routers and servers represent not only economic competition but also > surveillance competition.
Case in point on Sprint/Softbank merger http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/28/4155714/us-wants-sprint-softbank-deal-to-avoid-chinese-network-equipment/in/3252625 Should we as a community look at Open Hardware when we start to lose trust in vendors and governments? Can we make boards/ASIC/FPGA commodity enough to scale? Zaid
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