But this could also easily be industrial espionage. In the US, anyone competing with Huawei could simply spend a few million lobbying to convince congress that it's happening. No proof is required, only that the capability is there, and that if China was doing it we might never know.
Popular musicians are pirated and they sell more concert tickets.
What happens next is that music labels are no longer content with only getting a cut of album sales. So instead of only getting 85% of album revenues, Labels/management/agents now take 85% of concert, merch, and publishing revenues as well. Musicians now only get at best 15% of everything. Last I checked, losing 85% of 3/4 of your primary revenue streams was bad. This was one of the first consequences from piracy in the late 90's, and it's still standard practice today.
In my town there is a retirement home which houses 800+ on a street that's not especially busy, but a downtown artery nonetheless. Most of the residents have mobility issues, but aren't bed-ridden. They literally had to blockade the street multiple times in protest to get a crosswalk installed by the city.
Sure, the boomer generation is probably the last that's not saturated with cellular users. But there's still a huge number with 25+ years to go, and if anything they're more dependent on city infrastructure than anyone. It's a common theme for city councilors to promise to build benches to woo elderly voters who can't walk far without resting, for example.
This doesn't have to dominate infrastructure strategy, it's just a tool. But so are politicians...
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Security cameras and their hub systems have been hacked like crazy, largely because the average user (homeowner, retail lackey, office lackey) doesn't even bother changing the default passwords, much less a firewall or any reasonable security measures. Here's a report of a website streaming over 70,000 hacked cameras, and here's a report of over a hundred police surveillance cameras being hacked to send spam right in DC. They're plenty hackable, just a matter of whether the Chinese state thinks it's worth risking sanctions from the countries they're surveilling.
But this could also easily be industrial espionage. In the US, anyone competing with Huawei could simply spend a few million lobbying to convince congress that it's happening. No proof is required, only that the capability is there, and that if China was doing it we might never know.
Popular musicians are pirated and they sell more concert tickets.
What happens next is that music labels are no longer content with only getting a cut of album sales. So instead of only getting 85% of album revenues, Labels/management/agents now take 85% of concert, merch, and publishing revenues as well. Musicians now only get at best 15% of everything. Last I checked, losing 85% of 3/4 of your primary revenue streams was bad. This was one of the first consequences from piracy in the late 90's, and it's still standard practice today.
In my town there is a retirement home which houses 800+ on a street that's not especially busy, but a downtown artery nonetheless. Most of the residents have mobility issues, but aren't bed-ridden. They literally had to blockade the street multiple times in protest to get a crosswalk installed by the city.
Sure, the boomer generation is probably the last that's not saturated with cellular users. But there's still a huge number with 25+ years to go, and if anything they're more dependent on city infrastructure than anyone. It's a common theme for city councilors to promise to build benches to woo elderly voters who can't walk far without resting, for example.
This doesn't have to dominate infrastructure strategy, it's just a tool. But so are politicians...