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Explorer335 t1_iu7yfhv wrote

If the NSA is going public to say this is a threat, it's a BIG problem. That 5G hardware can communicate on huge swaths of the electromagnetic spectrum (far beyond its rating), and those towers have serious power behind them. Imagine a Chinese SIGINT network spanning the entire United States. What could possibly go wrong?

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SpaceTabs t1_iu8rvyf wrote

This isn't about 5G. 5G is acquired by carriers. This is about network cards, switches, routers, cameras... It isn't being checked at purchase and it isn't being measured/assessed in the infrastructure.

"Between 2015 and 2021, at least 1,681 state and local governments purchased equipment and services tied to the five companies named in Section 889. Every state except Vermont had at least one state or local government entity procure ICTS covered under Section 889 (there were also no purchases in Washington, D.C.).

"Collectively, these entities conducted nearly 5,700 transactions involving a wide range of covered equipment including but not limited to smartphones, surveillance cameras, temperature scanners, handheld radios, and networking equipment. Figures 1 and 2 show the total number and value of government transactions that involved equipment from Huawei, ZTE, Hikvision, Dahua, and Hytera in each state. Our analysis relies on data provided by GovSpend, a company that tracks federal, state, and local government procurement"

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Explorer335 t1_iu9ecft wrote

Huawei, Hikvision, and Dahua gear are really prevalent in my field. The prices are so low on some of the stuff that I swear they must be subsidizing it somewhere. I know those cameras check in with a server in China periodically, and some of them have facial recognition. I'm curious about what all they can do.

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misfitx t1_iub4xko wrote

The subsidy is the data is the real price.

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Angelworks42 t1_iub081s wrote

You know one big issue right now is there's a serious shortage of network hardware.

We've been waiting almost 2 years on an order from Cisco :(.

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