<story><title>The Clean Network – United States Department of State</title><url>https://www.state.gov/5g-clean-network/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apazzolini</author><text>&amp;gt; The JPEGed giant logo&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s almost like they ran it through jpegify.me on purpose as a joke, but really it&amp;#x27;s just another sign of the US&amp;#x27;s government technical incompetence.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>This really comes off as a hastily prepared political dig against China, when there are &lt;i&gt;in addition&lt;/i&gt; so many other actors and countries trying to take advantage of poor security.  The JPEGed giant logo at the top doesn&amp;#x27;t help...&lt;p&gt;Other observations:&lt;p&gt;-- &amp;quot;Remove untrusted applications from US mobile app stores&amp;quot;: so, this would call for even tighter control by Apple, Google, over its app distribution and monopolies?&lt;p&gt;-- Clean Apps: &amp;quot;Prevent untrusted PRC OEMs from installing trusted apps on their apps store... should remove apps to ensure they are not partnering with a human rights abuser.&amp;quot;  Umm, seriously, we&amp;#x27;re going to open this can of worms?&lt;p&gt;Edit to add a last thought:&lt;p&gt;I have yet to understand or read a coherent description about how we do not have the technical ability to protect against eavesdropping&amp;#x2F;etc regardless of who owns the physical hardware.   Why is CCP-owned infrastructure uniquely susceptible to this?   If we can&amp;#x27;t protect our transmissions with encryption, secure data storage techniques, what does it matter that the equipment is supplied by China?  What unusual attack do they get access to by owning or manufacturing the equipment?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text>&lt;i&gt;it&amp;#x27;s just another sign of the US&amp;#x27;s government technical incompetence.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not &amp;quot;the government.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;A person in the government.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The federal government has a very good design system.  But for some reason, whoever built this page chose not to follow it.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;designsystem.digital.gov&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;designsystem.digital.gov&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Clean Network – United States Department of State</title><url>https://www.state.gov/5g-clean-network/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apazzolini</author><text>&amp;gt; The JPEGed giant logo&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s almost like they ran it through jpegify.me on purpose as a joke, but really it&amp;#x27;s just another sign of the US&amp;#x27;s government technical incompetence.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>This really comes off as a hastily prepared political dig against China, when there are &lt;i&gt;in addition&lt;/i&gt; so many other actors and countries trying to take advantage of poor security.  The JPEGed giant logo at the top doesn&amp;#x27;t help...&lt;p&gt;Other observations:&lt;p&gt;-- &amp;quot;Remove untrusted applications from US mobile app stores&amp;quot;: so, this would call for even tighter control by Apple, Google, over its app distribution and monopolies?&lt;p&gt;-- Clean Apps: &amp;quot;Prevent untrusted PRC OEMs from installing trusted apps on their apps store... should remove apps to ensure they are not partnering with a human rights abuser.&amp;quot;  Umm, seriously, we&amp;#x27;re going to open this can of worms?&lt;p&gt;Edit to add a last thought:&lt;p&gt;I have yet to understand or read a coherent description about how we do not have the technical ability to protect against eavesdropping&amp;#x2F;etc regardless of who owns the physical hardware.   Why is CCP-owned infrastructure uniquely susceptible to this?   If we can&amp;#x27;t protect our transmissions with encryption, secure data storage techniques, what does it matter that the equipment is supplied by China?  What unusual attack do they get access to by owning or manufacturing the equipment?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjs382</author><text>The site uses WordPress and the post author decided to include a thumbnail, scaled up to regular size, rather than using the original: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.state.gov&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;CleanNetwork_NewCleans.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.state.gov&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;CleanNetwor...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>