05-26-2019, 02:51 PM
** 26-May-2019 Takin' a trip to China
The following is an edited version of my e-mail response to a web site
reader:
Dear Mark,
As you know, my personal experience spending five years implementing
board level operating systems for embedded systems has made it clear
that it would be easy for a Huawei engineer with the right skills to
install undetectable backdoors in Huawei chips. Huawei is also
required by China's National Intelligence Law, passed in 2017, to
fully cooperate with China's military in collecting intelligence, so
installation of these undectable backdoors is required by Chinese law.
China's military is preparing for war in every possible way. By
aggressively subsidizing Huawei's 5G products, the CCP's strategy is
to have as much of the global internet running on Huawei devices as
possible. When China launches its war, China's control of the global
internet will give China's military an enormous advantage.
Trump's policy on Huawei has less to do with trade and more with
trying to cripple China's military strategy. This is going to be a
major international issue, especially since the US-China trade talks
have collapsed after China reneged on previous agreements.
So despite wishful thinking on the part of some people, the US policy
is here to stay, and will trigger increasingly hostile responses by
the CCP.
With regard to Hikvision and DJI, they have just been banned by the
US, like Huawei. China is using these products for massive
surveillance of Chinese citizens, especially in Xinjiang. Any city in
the world that installs these cameras should be aware that Hikvision
and DJI are required by China's military to cooperate in collecting
foreign intelligence, and these cameras would have undetectable
backdoors that allow them to send surveillance data back to the
Chinese military.
I understand why investors can't simply ignore these three companies,
but at the very least having anything to do with them is playing with
fire.
You have every reason to be uncomfortable. My web site,
GenerationalDynamics.com, has been under a continual low-level DDOS
attack from Chinese IP addresses since 2011. The CCP has arrested
Canadian citizens and threatened them with execution in retaliation
for the arrest of Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou.
The CCP is getting more and more countries pissed off at them, and
they would like to reduce that level of international hostility. As
far as I know, the UK is not currently a target country, and they
would not wish to create an international incident by arresting
someone like you. However, I would not do anything (like taking
pictures) that might be misinterpreted by the CCP.
By the way, as an international traveler you would be well known to
China's military. They're setting up their "social credit system,"
which is a database of every person in China and it's been extended to
people around the world by hacking hundreds of millions of records
from personnel, airline, hotel, and other private and government
databases in every country.
The following is an edited version of my e-mail response to a web site
reader:
Dear Mark,
Quote:> Firstly, What are you views on the US policy on Huawei and
> potentially DJI and Hikvision.
As you know, my personal experience spending five years implementing
board level operating systems for embedded systems has made it clear
that it would be easy for a Huawei engineer with the right skills to
install undetectable backdoors in Huawei chips. Huawei is also
required by China's National Intelligence Law, passed in 2017, to
fully cooperate with China's military in collecting intelligence, so
installation of these undectable backdoors is required by Chinese law.
China's military is preparing for war in every possible way. By
aggressively subsidizing Huawei's 5G products, the CCP's strategy is
to have as much of the global internet running on Huawei devices as
possible. When China launches its war, China's control of the global
internet will give China's military an enormous advantage.
Trump's policy on Huawei has less to do with trade and more with
trying to cripple China's military strategy. This is going to be a
major international issue, especially since the US-China trade talks
have collapsed after China reneged on previous agreements.
So despite wishful thinking on the part of some people, the US policy
is here to stay, and will trigger increasingly hostile responses by
the CCP.
With regard to Hikvision and DJI, they have just been banned by the
US, like Huawei. China is using these products for massive
surveillance of Chinese citizens, especially in Xinjiang. Any city in
the world that installs these cameras should be aware that Hikvision
and DJI are required by China's military to cooperate in collecting
foreign intelligence, and these cameras would have undetectable
backdoors that allow them to send surveillance data back to the
Chinese military.
I understand why investors can't simply ignore these three companies,
but at the very least having anything to do with them is playing with
fire.
Quote:> Secondly, I am about to fly to Shenzhen, I was just warned that
> the city now has a mandatory video photo at every and has cameras
> across the city. A foreign fund manger was recently detained at
> exit as he was seen taking numerous photos around the city with
> his cameras. Given this technology is being exported globally this
> makes me very uncomfortable.
You have every reason to be uncomfortable. My web site,
GenerationalDynamics.com, has been under a continual low-level DDOS
attack from Chinese IP addresses since 2011. The CCP has arrested
Canadian citizens and threatened them with execution in retaliation
for the arrest of Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou.
The CCP is getting more and more countries pissed off at them, and
they would like to reduce that level of international hostility. As
far as I know, the UK is not currently a target country, and they
would not wish to create an international incident by arresting
someone like you. However, I would not do anything (like taking
pictures) that might be misinterpreted by the CCP.
By the way, as an international traveler you would be well known to
China's military. They're setting up their "social credit system,"
which is a database of every person in China and it's been extended to
people around the world by hacking hundreds of millions of records
from personnel, airline, hotel, and other private and government
databases in every country.
