Technology

Quiet I can hear you while we're auctioning off Bytedance/tiktok to US corporations. No hypocrisy to be found here.

Wrong. This is operational security warfare. China, Russia, and every adversary should be holding the same attitude towards us if they're worth their salt at protecting their internal national assets.

It doesn't matter that its Chinese people by blood, its Team-U vs Team-C.

Now, the shitbags crying about this probably are doing it from ill-intentioned positions and are most definitely racist, but while their broad intentions are evil, this is one of those cliché "broken clock right twice a day" moments.

DUI hire.

This is definitely hindsight is always 20/20 sort of thinking but governments should have long ago realized that trusting the likes of Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. would leave them reliant on their innovations and also subject to their whims, mistakes, and more.

Well, I would suppose that a government, if it really want, have more than one way to solve this problem, it is not a small business that can't fight back. And it can fight back in more ways than just "I will switch vendor"

Basically I’m saying World governments all need their own internal OS developed and maintained internally by an official subdivision of said governments, and maybe even a separate branch developing internally utilized hardware.

Yes, but it would be a nightmare to communicate even with your allies if everyone has a different OS running on differen hardware since at some point you will need to communicate with someone.

I work for one of the world's largest proprietary software companies.

100% agree with you

Countries should fund open source OS, browser, mobile OS. It is in their best interest.

Totally agree, but at this point Microsoft is so ingrained in the US federal government that it's practically a branch of it.

On the other hand, have you ever seen a government authored operating system?

in which U.S. personnel with security clearances supervise foreign engineers, including those in China.

From the security clearance perspective there really isn't any difference between China based engineers, Chinese spies, and Joe America accessing classified code without being cleared by the DoD.

If an individual did this "escort" scheme, they would be arrested.

The US has long since had a practice of outsourcing labor many times over in pursuit of the lowest labor costs and maximum profit.

Getting your girdle in a twist because you found out the guy on Fiverr debugging your middleware has non-White ancestors maybe misses the root of the problem.

Google, Amazon and several other gov contractors have been loosening their hiring guidelines since the Obama era when it was required for anyone working on gov cloud or gov anything needed to be U.S. Citizen, then it was just on U.S. soil to finally has to be monitored or reviewed by someone in U.S. which very quickly devolved to get the work done even if no one in the U.S. is awake. As you can imagine it would be easy for anyone to slip and take advantage of such wide gaps in security.

I’m agreeing with Pete Hegseth? WTF is happening right now?

I mean, listen to your gut instincts, which is that you're being foolish because he is a fool.

If your system demands trust, it's a bad system. If your system has a written set of rules that don't actually cover your requirements, it's a bad system. If the "tests" you imagine post-hoc aren't part of the system, you're just opportunistically trying to shift the blame.

You made a deal, set the parameters, and what... Expected the for profit company to ignore their fiduciary duty to shareholders to maximize profit? What is this, your first fucking day of capitalism, Pete?

His response to this is engineered to shift blame, and he's coming out swinging because ultimately he is to blame. It's barely more than a political catchphrase. He literally invoked "America First".