Re: <nettime> How the East Was Won, starring Cisco Stewart & Huawei Wayne

[Niels ten Oever <lists@digitaldissidents.org>]

Hi Morlock,

You might be forgetting the role of Ericsson and Nokia in the European part of this saga. 

Unfortunately the tender demand for an communication infrastructure built on open hardware, open software, reproducible builds and full formal proofs of correctness are nowhere to be found...

Cheers,

Niels

On 3/13/19 3:21 AM, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> [John Ford's 1962 classic has rough sketches of concession wars between railroad builders on the virgin land.]
> 
> The current Huawei/Cisco wars being fought in Europe, directly fueled by governments and involving heads of state, have little to do with equipment sales/profits or 'security'. No one gives a flying f*ck about that.
> 
> They have everything to do with data siphoning concessions: will it be done by Chinese or Americans?
> 
> Europe's data industry has been expertly amputated, so like a legless cripple it has to buy limbs somewhere, and there are two options. Europe's traffic will be siphoned in its entirety, everyone in the know is cool with that (as they have no choice.) Except maybe hapless populus - anyone counting on stuff like GDPR is a complete idiot (would you trust cat's promise not to eat bacon?)
> 
> The cripple will buy its limbs in one of these shops, and the rest is described, do stay with film, in Nick Park's 1993 The Wrong Trousers.
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> The real depravity of European politicians, committees, non-profits and assorted parasites, is reflected in the fact that they don't mention the 3rd option: buy nothing. Not going with the Program is unthinkable, and obviously the right thing to do.
> 
> 
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Niels ten Oever
Researcher and PhD Candidate
Datactive Research Group
University of Amsterdam

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