<div dir="ltr">Probably the right lubrication ... donation ... um bribe ... to their favourite party hasn't been forth coming .<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 July 2017 at 18:00, Noel Butler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:noel.butler@ausics.net" target="_blank">noel.butler@ausics.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:10pt"><div><div class="h5">
<p>On 27/07/2017 17:43, Jonathan Brewer wrote:</p>
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<div dir="auto">On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 at 12:37, Mark Newton <<a href="mailto:newton@atdot.dotat.org" target="_blank">newton@atdot.dotat.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">A submarine cable connecting Sydney to the Solomon Islands is being refused a landing permit in Sydney because it's being built by Huawei.
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<div><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-refuses-to-connect-to-undersea-cable-built-by-chinese-company-20170726-gxj9bf.html" target="_blank">http://www.smh.com.au/federal-<wbr>politics/political-news/<wbr>australia-refuses-to-connect-<wbr>to-undersea-cable-built-by-<wbr>chinese-company-20170726-<wbr>gxj9bf.html</a></div>
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<div>So, uh, don't do that then, hey?</div>
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<div dir="auto">You mean don't land in Australia, right?</div>
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<div dir="auto">We've got plenty of Huawei in New Zealand networks, including our UFB network. (That's the one I get 1000/500 fibre service from for about AUD $110/month). Guess what? It works. And it doesn't come with any more spyware than Cisco or Juniper.</div>
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<div dir="auto">What's the Australian government's problem? Is it protectionism? Racism? Something else?</div>
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<div dir="auto">-JB</div>
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</div></div><p>They are quite happy for NSA and GCHQ to know our every moves it seems, but not the CSS</p>
<p>I'd be sure to find more spyware in cisco and other USA gear, than in Huawei's.</p>
<p>Besides, Washington probably told them not to trust them, but in same breath say "trust us with our spyware" yeah right, the entire USA govt is like a bad rerun of the apprentice.</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<p>Kind Regards,</p>
<p>Noel Butler</p>
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