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Apple, Microsoft and Other US Tech Companies Undergoing 'Security Reviews' in China (neowin.net)
An anonymous reader writes: Chinese government is keeping an ever watchful eye on the companies doing business in the country, especially when foreign companies compete with local ones. To that end, the Chinese authorities have begun a security review among many different American technology companies like Apple and others. These, while mostly done out of the public sphere, seem to target issues like encryption and data storage. According to a report from the New York Times (paywalled; alternate source), government representatives have been questioning engineers and executives from different technology companies with regards to these issues for the last nine months. The so-called security reviews are being done by the Cyberspace Administration of China, with the government committee including experts tied to the country's military and security agencies.The Verge has more details.
Hey, the USA should put back-doors in all encryption solutions! Then China could use them too..
Shh.
Is worried about competition in their domestic market? The civilized world should slap tariffs on them.
Thanks, now we can reproduce your product.
Based upon the articles linked, passing these audits would be pretty damning for the companies involved.
...was convincing the world it doesn't exist. Whoops, wrong quote.
While Snowden's relevalations were important in giving us a small amount of insight into what our government is up to, it's hard to argue that there weren't real damages and implications of that information getting out. Here's one: it allows foreign governments to get away with paranoid mode. Does anyone believe the Chinese government's #1 concern is security? I'm sure it's on the list somewhere but given how business and industry are linked there and information is available for sale at every turn--the government may actually want it for security but you know the officials coming up with this idea are thinking that they be bribed into handing it over..oops, I mean inadvertently make it available to corporations who accidentally leave a stack of fresh red Mao bills and the keys to a new Lexus on the floor with no note. Oops, I mean sell it to them. Ah, what's the difference?
But even without Snowden, this was likely to happen. It's just now it's much easier for the CCP to get away with this sort of behavior and justify it on the world scale. The companies may even buy into some of the nonsense and posturing.
Pull the factory's out and china may well be Fucked they can try making there own knock offs but the TPTA will stop that.
You dumbfuck. China demands front door access. Nothing about this is at all new or surprising. If you put about 20 seconds of thought into it, you'd realize that the only reason the iPhone has been allowed to succeed in China is because Apple has given the Chinese government wholesale access.
Russians are copycatting Chinese and Indian, and these are copycatting Russians.
Nothing to see here.
Medication would help. Never miss it.
Xi reportedly concluded that the best path lay somewhere between these two, with the country needing to decide "which things can be imported but have to be secure and controllable," which tech can be "absorbed for re-innovation," and for "which things we must rely on our own strength and indigenous innovation."
"absorbed for re-innovation,"
Sounds like copying to me...
The FM Receiver isn't enabled in most phones because the electronics required to use the headset shield as an FM antenna increase crosstalk on the 3.5mm jack. Phones without FM chose to emphasize 3.5mm audio quality over FM radio function.
This is trivially easy to confirm - just check the headset crosstalk numbers on any Android review site. You'll find a bi-modal distribution that correlates to presence of an FM receiver.
Yuor mom would help. I miss her.
If they work hard enough, maybe their economy can become as noncompetitive and laced with government cronies as the United States.
Big American companies used to be more patriotic and concerned with things like liberty and national security. The made it so they could be easily mobilized for WWII to make the stuff to support the war effort to stop Imperial Japan and NAZI Germany.
These modern corporate giants, however, consider themselves "multinational" and care for little more that maximizing profits and pushing whatever social issues their executives choose to push. The comments that follow involving social policies are not about WHICH social policies they embrace, whether they are good/bad is a matter of opinion, but rather the complete hypocrisy and fakery of pretending to have principles in one place while proving that you really do not in another (often because it would cost money to have those same principles in the other location).
They will happily fight the US government on things like encryption even on a serious thing like a specific terrorist incident, while happily meeting with any tyrant on Earth and letting those governments see their source code. They'll refuse to sell tech to the US if they think it might be used in ways they do not like, but will happily sell tech to tyrannical governments that they know will be used to suppress political dissent and the most basic human rights. They'll boycott a state like North Carolina because it refuses to create a legal loophole that would let dirty old men pretend to be transgender and thus have a "legitimate" reason to be in a shower/bathroom/lockerroom with little girls, or boycott a state that does not recognize gay marriage........ but then they happily do business in countries that tolerate a rampant child sex trade, or slaughter homosexuals like cattle.
"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
While you may not like the Chinese, their concerns are entirely valid. They want to know what amount of US backdoors and spying capabilities they buy with the devices and expose their people to. Sure, the Chinese do this themselves, but it is their country, so they rightfully wonder about foreign spying, regardless of what they do themselves.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.