<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Alupis</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t really see the fear mongering or problem here.&lt;p&gt;This executive order would forbid the government from purchasing and installing Telecom&amp;#x2F;Networking equipment that would be considered to have a higher than acceptable risk.&lt;p&gt;Given that China isn&amp;#x27;t exactly the most friendly nation to the US, and given Huawei is by nature, an extension of the Chinese Government, it&amp;#x27;s not unreasonable to assume China might at some point in the future (or already is) use Huawei to conduct electronic espionage against other nations.&lt;p&gt;Just like it wouldn&amp;#x27;t be unreasonable for China to forbid purchase and use of Cisco equipment within the Chinese government.&lt;p&gt;(We should also not forget or excuse Chinese IP theft which has enabled Huawei to produce competitive products in the first place...)</text><parent_chain><item><author>petschge</author><text>The fear mongering against Huawei becomes really interesting when you look at all the &amp;quot;sorry, we forgot about that unintentional access possibility&amp;quot; incidents in Cisco gear that might either be back doors or lousy QA leading to security problems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trump Moves to Ban Foreign Telecom Gear, Targeting Huawei and China</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/business/huawei-ban-trump.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mey</author><text>Watching from afar, the amount of huge holes in Cisco are staggering.  I don&amp;#x27;t really understand IT&amp;#x27;s love of Cisco, other than that&amp;#x27;s all they&amp;#x27;ve certed in&amp;#x2F;invested in&amp;#x2F;never get fired for IBM mentality.  For people in the networking space, what makes you use cisco for firewalls&amp;#x2F;core routing at this point?</text><parent_chain><item><author>petschge</author><text>The fear mongering against Huawei becomes really interesting when you look at all the &amp;quot;sorry, we forgot about that unintentional access possibility&amp;quot; incidents in Cisco gear that might either be back doors or lousy QA leading to security problems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trump Moves to Ban Foreign Telecom Gear, Targeting Huawei and China</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/business/huawei-ban-trump.html</url></story>