Tuesday, July 1, 2014

China Bans Microsoft Office

After USA taxpayers have spent billions to fight "piracy" to protect Bill Gates' profits in China, China has banned the use of the software by government.  Largely due to the intelligence gathering built into such software, China was encouraged to develop home grown office suites for software.

Beijing has sped up its pace of ousting made-in-US IT products from key industries and organizations since the US government in May accused five Chinese military officials of cyberespionage.
China denied the charges and in the following days announced a ban on Windows 8 in government procurement.

Imagine that!  China spies!  Snowden just revealed what was already know, the NSA spies on everyone on earth.  And the reasoning is...
“It’s not impossible to imagine a humanitarian crisis in a country that’s friendly to the United States, where the military might be expected on a moment’s notice to go in and evacuate all Americans,” said a former senior defense official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. “If that certification did not list the country,” the NSA could not gather intelligence under the law, the former official said.
If it is friendly to us, how come the military must invade?  Is that just how we respond to all events?  Invade?  Anyway, at 9-11 attack, it took the state department something like eight days to account for all of their employees around the world.  AFS Student exchange, with a similar amount of people involved, had ever single student around the world accounted for within 24 hours.  Private is safer.

In the book I am reading Tombstone, Bulgarian businessmen receiving pork shipments from China had first hand evidence of the starvation going on in China.  Business people always know what it going on while information in government is always politicized.  If you want good intel, only business can provide it.

Those who make money of the spying love it and the give their best arguments.  if there is any worthwhile intelligence to be had, it can only be found by business.  Get rid of our "intel agencies." We'll do so much better, so much more peaceful and prosperous.

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