In 2009, a Turkish graduate of the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, #Erdal#Arikan, published a paper that solved a fundamental problem in information theory, allowing for much faster and more accurate data transfers.
Unable to get an academic appointment or funding to work on this seemingly esoteric problem in the United States, he returned to his home country.
As a foreign citizen, he would have had to find a U.S. employer interested in his project to be able to stay.
Back in Turkey, Arikan turned to #China.
It turned out that Arikan’s insight was the breakthrough needed to leap from 4G telecommunications networks to much faster #5G mobile internet services.
Four years later, China’s national telecommunications champion, #Huawei, was using Arikan’s discovery to invent some of the first 5G technologies.
Today, Huawei holds over two-thirds of the #patents related to Arikan’s solution
—10 times more than its nearest competitor.
And while Huawei has produced one-third of the 5G infrastructure now operating around the world, 💥the United States does not have a single major company competing in this race. 💥
Had the United States been able to retain Arikan
—simply by allowing him to stay in the country instead of making his visa contingent on immediately finding a sponsor for his work
—this history might well have been different.
Anyone interested in a used black #Huawei P30 Lite Smartphone in excellent condition for 99€? 🤔 blue/cyan leather case included. #sale#selling#smartphone
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📨 Latest issue of my curated #cybersecurity and #infosec list of resources for week #38/2023 is out! It includes the following and much more:
➝ 🔓 ❌ TransUnion Denies #Breach After Hacker Publishes Allegedly Stolen Data
➝ 🔓 ⚖️ Hackers breached International Criminal Court’s systems last week
➝ 🔓 🤖 #Microsoft#AI researchers accidentally exposed terabytes of internal sensitive data
➝ 🦠 💸 #BlackCat#ransomware hits #Azure Storage with #Sphynx encryptor
➝ 🇮🇷 🇮🇱 Iranian Nation-State Actor OilRig Targets Israeli Organizations
➝ 🇮🇳 #India's biggest tech centers named as #cybercrime hotspots
➝ 🇫🇮 💊 Finnish Authorities Dismantle Notorious #PIILOPUOTI Dark Web Drug Marketplace
➝ 🇨🇦 🇷🇺 Canadian Government Targeted With #DDoS Attacks by Pro-#Russia Group
➝ 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 #China Accuses U.S. of Decade-Long #Cyberespionage Campaign Against #Huawei Servers
➝ 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 China's Malicious Cyber Activity Informing War Preparations, #Pentagon Says
➝ 🇨🇳 🦠 New #SprySOCKS Linux #malware used in cyber espionage attacks
➝ 🇬🇧 🔐 UK Minister Warns #Meta Over End-to-End Encryption
➝ 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 One of the #FBI’s most wanted hackers is trolling the U.S. government
➝ 🦠 🥸 Fake #WinRAR proof-of-concept exploit drops #VenomRAT malware
➝ 🦠 📈 #P2PInfect botnet activity surges 600x with stealthier malware variants
➝ 🦠 📡 Hackers backdoor #telecom providers with new HTTPSnoop malware
➝ 🦠 🐝 #Bumblebee malware returns in new attacks abusing #WebDAV folders
➝ 🔐 #GitHub launches #passkey support into general availability
➝ ☑️ 🐧 Free Download Manager releases script to check for #Linux malware
➝ 💬 🔐 #Signal adds quantum-resistant encryption to its #E2EE messaging protocol
➝ 🍏 🔐 #iOS 17 includes these new security and #privacy features
➝ 🩹 High-Severity Flaws Uncovered in #Atlassian Products and ISC BIND Server
➝ 🩹 😡 Incomplete disclosures by #Apple and #Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day hunters
➝ 🍏 🩹 Apple emergency updates fix 3 new zero-days exploited in attacks
➝ 🩹 #TrendMicro fixes #endpoint protection zero-day used in attacks
➝ 🩹 #Fortinet Patches High-Severity #Vulnerabilities in FortiOS, FortiProxy, FortiWeb Products
➝ 🔓 Nearly 12,000 #Juniper#Firewalls Found Vulnerable to Recently Disclosed RCE Vulnerability
📚 This week's recommended reading is: "Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It" by Marc Goodman
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I hate sounding like the old guy in the room when I say things like "phone design used to be more fun". I mean, I AM the old guy in the room, but I hate SOUNDING like the old guy complaining about new tech.
Frosted gradients. Laser etched glossy. Bold primary color polycarb. Metal and leather. Different form factors and features... Sigh...
The United States has landed another blow to China’s technological advancement, by revoking licenses that allowed Intel and Qualcomm to buy and sell chips to Huawei Technologies, reports @engadget.
Huawei was hit hard when it was placed on U.S. trade restrictions lists in 2019, but a recent comeback — including the launch of an AI-enabled laptop powered by an Intel chip — appears to have renewed the government’s national security worries.
China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) accuses the U.S. of a decade-long cyber espionage campaign, alleging server breaches, data theft, and backdoor implantation at #Huawei.
"Manuel Atug, Gründer und Sprecher der unabhängigen @AG_KRITIS findet die Debatte werde zu geopolitisch geführt. Würde es wirklich um Sicherheit gehen, würde es länderunabhängige Sicherheitsvorgaben und -prüfungen geben, bei denen alle Hersteller nach beispielsweise vom @bsi festgelegten Kriterien geprüft werden. So wie sie geführt werde..." https://background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisierung/der-umgang-mit-huawei-bleibt-unklar
Two footmen dressed in white approach the vehicle as it arrives. One opens the rear door. #Guo#Ping, one of #Huawei's rotating chairmen, steps forward and extends a hand as the guest emerges.
After walking a red carpet, the two men enter the magnificent marble-floored building, ascend a stairway, and pass through French doors to a palatial ballroom.
Several hundred people arise from their chairs and clap wildly.
The guest is welcomed by Huawei's founder, #Ren#Zhengfei, whose sky-blue blazer and white khakis signify that he has attained the power to wear whatever the hell he wants.
After some serious speechifying by a procession of dark-suited executives, Ren
—who is China's Bill Gates, Lee Iacocca, and Warren Buffett rolled into one
—comes to the podium.
Three young women dressed in white uniforms enter the room, swinging their arms military style as they march to the stage, then about-face in unison as one holds out a framed #gold#medal the size of a salad plate.
Embedded with a red Baccarat crystal, it depicts the Goddess of Victory and was manufactured by the Monnaie de Paris. Ren is almost glowing as he presents the medal to the visitor.
This #honored#guest is not a world leader, a billionaire magnate, nor a war hero. He is a relatively unknown Turkish academic named #Erdal#Arıkan.
Throughout the ceremony he has been sitting stiffly, frozen in his ill-fitting suit, as if he were an ordinary theatergoer suddenly thrust into the leading role on a Broadway stage.
Arıkan isn't exactly ordinary.
Ten years earlier, he'd made a major discovery in the field of information theory.
Huawei then plucked his theoretical breakthrough from academic obscurity and, with large investments and top engineering talent, fashioned it into something of value in the realm of commerce.
The company then muscled and negotiated to get that innovation into something so big it could not be denied:
the basic #5G#technology now being rolled out all over the world.
Huawei's rise over the past 30 years has been heralded in China as a triumph of smarts, sweat, and grit. Perhaps no company is more beloved at home
—and more vilified by the United States.
That's at least in part because Huawei's ascent also bears the fingerprints of China's nationalistic industrial policy and an alleged penchant for intellectual property theft;
the US Department of Justice has charged the company with a sweeping conspiracy of misappropriation, infringement, obstruction, and lies.
As of press time, Ren Zhengfei's #daughter was under house arrest in Vancouver, fighting extradition to the US for allegedly violating a ban against trading with Iran.
The US government has banned Huawei's 5G products and has been lobbying other countries to do the same. Huawei denies the charges; Ren calls them political.
Huawei is settling the score in its own way. One of the world's great technology powers, it nonetheless suffers from an inferiority complex.
Despite spending billions on research and science, it can't get the respect and recognition of its Western peers. Much like China itself.
So when Ren handed the solid-gold medal
—crafted by the French mint!
—to Erdal Arıkan, he was sticking his thumb in their eye.
Quelqu’un utilise ou a déjà testé une #Huawei#WatchBuds, la montre connectée avec écouteurs intégrés ? Je me tâte, maintenant que le prix a beaucoup baissé…
Partager, c’est sympa ! #HuaweiWatchBuds
Uhm... it's unlikely I can install a custom #android rom to a #Huawei EVR-N29 device, right? It has EMUI 12 and Huawei doesn't offer bootloader unlock codes any more since $deity knows when.