[xiaodai]

Lol. I am Malaysian Chinese but I honestly don't think anyone will put into production a Chinese made kernel. The risk is too high, same as no one will use a Linux distro coming out of Russian, Iran or NK. It's just cultural bias in the west.

[edelbitter]

Its not the Chinese words that scare me. It the English "safety" and "security" referring to specific properties and concepts... but wildly different ones between sentences. Like its all 2009 again and we are hoping we avoided XSS when we picked the appropriate quote/encode/escape method.

[gpm]

Supposing it caught on... which do you think is riskier? Running an OS written in mostly memory safe code that somewhat might have tried to slip a backdoor in, or running an OS written in mostly memory unsafe code that has a long history of vulnerabilities and the Chinese almost certainly know about a vulnerability in.

If this catches on and has generally been subject to significant third party code review with positive results, I'm not sure any backdoor is lower cost to use than an equivalent linux vulnerability. To be fair, I'm not sure it isn't either.

[throw4950sh06]

You're wrong. A lot of Chinese code and hardware is in production in the west. Huawei networking hardware is widespread, for example.

[tredre3]

> Huawei networking hardware is widespread

That's an interesting example because Huawei equipment is currently being removed by several Western countries (UK, Canada, US, Germany) specifically because it's Chinese.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/business/huawei-germany-b...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/huawei-5g-decision-1.631083...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/huawei-to-be-removed-from...

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-open-progr...

[cozzyd]

When we got a license for a private LTE network in the middle of the Greenland ice sheet, the one stipulation was we couldn't use Huawei equipment...