Why are you giving this company benefit of the doubt - just because it’s western? They haven’t even bothered to comment on the issue, they made no promise to fix it, for all you know they are selling your data to the highest bidder. And to anyone from China too.
If a Chinese company does it we are quick to label it stealing, but here we have the authority to regulate, and we go soft, oh no, it’s disorganisation, poor them, they’ve only been in this business for like 40 years or whatever.
Maybe we should assume malevolence, just like we do with China.
> Maybe we should assume malevolence, just like we do with China.
I'm fine with assuming ignorance for a brief window. But when the vendor doesn't reply after multiple repeated attempts, and no fix is in sight, it should quickly evolve from ignorance to willful malpractice at the very least.
Where did I give them the benefit of the doubt? I am furious at the network providers ongoing negligence/incompetence. Either they are in bed with the NSA or they just suck at their job. Regardless of the root cause, we all suffer.
The mention of Huawei was to point out the humor that the government has banned a company on the potential for subtle back doors. Something like the xz exploit. Yet the domestic vendors put out trivially broken crap on the regular. How many Cisco devices have shipped with hardcoded passwords in the past decade.
Why are you giving this company benefit of the doubt - just because it’s western? They haven’t even bothered to comment on the issue, they made no promise to fix it, for all you know they are selling your data to the highest bidder. And to anyone from China too.
If a Chinese company does it we are quick to label it stealing, but here we have the authority to regulate, and we go soft, oh no, it’s disorganisation, poor them, they’ve only been in this business for like 40 years or whatever.
Maybe we should assume malevolence, just like we do with China.