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by 2Gkashmiri 1455 days ago
i recently wrote a comment about how america can "justify" stuxnet attack on iran as a "display of capability of usa and israel" but in the same breath they are quick to "attack on our critical infrastructure is an act of war against our great nation and we must respond".

you can hit the other guy and call it a win but god forbid if the other person hits back, then its a matter of hurting your pride. meh.

huawei has been on the grill for "secret backdoor" for quite some time now and as far as i remember, no "proof" has been given yet western states have been quick to follow suit in banning their equipment. on the contrary, intel and amd have documented backdoors in their CPUs by nsa/cia but that's "fine", no big deal....

USA can spy on germany, uk, which is documented but if there is even an alegation of the same being done by china, all hell breaks loose.

this is the reason why many countries around the world are switching to RISC-V platform, away from X86 because america can and has shown multiple times that they can "strongarm" those companies to simply quit a market and exert pressure. people don't want that.

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>this is the reason why many countries around the world are switching to RISC-V platform

And also the reason why RISC-V Foundation, originally US-based, is now Switzerland-based.

Ah, like Crypto AG?