[mhurron]

> Time fixes everything. We have a short term memory.

The memory of a goldfish seems more appropriate. Companies are considering Chinese companies in the place of parts from Cisco and Juniper. These same places would have thought that unthinkable before the current revelations because of the general knowledge that the Chinese government was doing these same things.

Purchasers punish one company for doing something that they now reward a second company for doing, while yesterday they punished them for it.

If the NSA laid low for a bit and one or more Chinese companies were caught doing the same thing, it would all swing back the other way.

[marcosdumay]

That earlier general belif that china spies it was based on cirunstancial evidence. The current belif that the US spies is based on catching them on the act.