Huawei can’t officially use microSD cards in its phones going forward
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Huawei can’t officially use microSD cards in its phones going fo..
The effects of the United States’ Huawei ban continue to grow, with the Chinese hardware company now barred from being a member of the SD Association (the trade group that agrees upon standardized specs for SD and microSD cards). In other words, Huawei is no longer allowed to put official SD or microSD card support in its future phones or laptops, via 9to5Google.
I'm starting to wonder, why would any technological company want to use US-made standards anymore? If the US government can just chose to disallow you from using them, so much for interoperation.
Considering their laptops have no SD slots and the phones have been using NM cards in the past year, this won't really affect them all that much.
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So I guess China will start trying to make its own standards.
I thought the point of standards were to allow devices to interoperate and share interfaces, so I think we shouldn't trust standards comitees from the US anymore.
The US used to be considered a very reliable leader in technology. Now it's turning into a Banana Republic and destroying cooperations that it didn't even know existed and that we depended on, I really think the Technology sector is in more danger of fragmentation than it's ever been before.
Maybe it could be possible to make it so that standards organizations are based on more than one country so this doesn't happen anymore?
Right but even if they are multinational they are still a single entity right? so the US can still have them ban people.
I just want to point out that the Bloomberg article is completely fabricated. And what they're referring to as a backdoor is telnet.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48103430
But being insecure != spying, all manufacturers (specially router manufacturers) make big fuckups all the time, including US ones.
They were all patched up in 2011 and 2012.
They weren't random audits, they were initiated due to another Bloomberg article that provided 0 evidence.
The Super Micro audits were independent: https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/11/audit-clears-super-micro-servers/
Apple did their own checks too: https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/08/apple-letter-to-congress-supermicro-tampering/
Amazon and Apple asked for them to retract their story: https://gizmodo.com/amazon-super-micro-join-apple-in-demanding-retraction-1829925889
My main point is simply, take Bloomberg with a bit of salt. If we're going to go with the chip story being true, then China already has access to literally everything.
Here's the thing: Bloomberg claimed to have 14 anonymous sources. Fourteen seems a lot, but consider that the alleged conspiracy involved massive players like Google, Apple, and Amazon, and would've originated with, so the story goes, Chinese intelligence forcing manufacturers to taint their production lines with spy chips.
This is a conspiracy that affects ten thousand people across its length and breadth, and Bloomberg was only able to find 14 people who knew anything about it?? The N fucking SA even put out a post saying "we literally have no evidence of this so if anyone knows anything please call us".
No one has corroborated Bloomberg's report. The bombshell was a hollow dud. The number of people who would need to be involved but say nothing rivals moon landing conspiracies.
Bloomberg got hoaxed and ran the story anyway.
Yeah, I agree that the risks are real. And I think it's a nobrainer to not using foreign (especially adversary's) technology. But yeah the way it's been handled has been poor.
After being abandoned by numerous software companies and vendors in the wake of the US trade ban, Chinese technology company Huawei has now been reinstated in a few major tech associations.
According to an announcement by Huawei on Friday (May 31), the company had restored relations with the following:
SD Association
Wi-Fi Alliance
Bluetooth
Android Q Beta
Huawei said in its media update that discussions regarding Android Q Beta are still ongoing.
Huawei just got reinstated in Google's Android Q Beta program, S..
Android Q Beta Devices
What a load of crock
Ya know, I'm kind of okay with pushing the Chinese back with things like this. It's bad enough they spy on their own citizens, openly, but we don't need their bullshit over here.
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