
Why we should fear China spying on our home appliances
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Cellular Modules Are More Than Just a Chip
The Chinese Communist Party knows this, and it's set out on the deliberate policy to establish a triopoly of its own three companies in global markets. They currently have 54% of the global market by sales and 75% by connectivity. The aim is to get that as close to 100 and drive out the competition - at which point dangers of erosion or destruction of your capability become eminently possible. It would not be difficult also to send software updates to those which would, at a given moment, crash the whole lot. Or you could bring down, if it was a naval base, for instance, the electricity and a naval base. I don't think a responsible government should be allowing that sort
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