China has made it’s own secure Harmony OS and the US military empire is in hysterics

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Well China has unveiled a new operating system, and it is a BIG DEAL. And I am going to tell you why.

Why this is a big deal.

Presently America controls 99% of all operating systems in the world. America controls the vast number of computer operating systems (Microsoft, and Apple), and the vast number of cell phone operating systems (Microsoft, Google, and Android). The few remaining systems such and Linux and other odd-balls are hit and miss in regards to this control.

Now, I am not talking about American companies being in control of these operating systems.

Instead, I am discussing the American government controlling the operating systems themselves.

It is no secret that the United States government has offices in the development offices of Microsoft, Apple, and Google. And it is more than just “back doors” to operation access.

The Utah Data Collection Center.

To use any of these systems is to give the United States absolute control over your electronics,

As I can PERSONALLY affirm when the government burst into my home in 2006, seized my computer, plugged it into a machine and had full access effectively bypassing all of my passwords, biomedical fingerprint scanning mechanisms and folder locks. They (passwords, biometrics, etc.) are there to give you the illusion of security. The fact is, the US Government owns your computer and they can access it at will.

They can do it at any time. At any place, and there isn’t a fucking thing that you can do about it.

Enter China

This situation, where America has it’s fingers and hands on all communication and electronic communication, is dangerous. Not just for you as an individual who no longer has privacy in any form, but for governments who are exposed to electronic blackmail at the touch of a button.

Which pretty much explains the Morrison government in Australia.

Whether this is economic, such as what the Trump Administration was trying to do with Huawei, or domestically, such as the control of dams, pipelines, and military, the risk of a malevolent foreign actor… especially an out of control military empire such as the United States to have this ability is very, very dangerous.

And now China has it’s own OS.

And the entire “ballgame” has changed.

America must stop this from happening!

Thus we have an on-going war with everything Huawei.

After four years of anti-China disinformation, and anti-Huawei disinformation, most Americans will regurgitate the propaganda that they have been programmed.

All the sheeple feel “bad” about Huawei and have “bad experiences”. Not that they have any experiences, mind you, but they just regurgitate the narratives. And it’s like listening to a robot. Seriously.

I met a fellow who was like this just last week. We were in a Shaomi store, and we started chatting. He said that he didn’t like Huawei products. And so I naturally asked him why.

He said that he had a “bad experience” with it.

So, I wanted to know. What was it? Was it breaking down? Was it too expensive, did it remind him of a bad girl friend? What? Was he swindled? Did the screen fall off? Were there connection problems? What was it?

I asked him over and over.

All he would say for the umpteen time was that he had a “bad experience”. I was just about to give up when he admitted that he never really and actually owned a Huawei phone. It’s just that he read a lot of bad stuff about it.

Sheeple.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Harmony OS

After years of speculation and rumor, Chinese tech giant Huawei formally unveiled its Harmony OS operating system in 2019. It’s fair to say that more questions have been raised than answered. How does it work? What problems does it solve? And is it a product of the current feud between Huawei and the U.S. government?

Is Harmony OS Based on Linux?

No. Although both are free software products (or, more accurately, Huawei has pledged to release Harmony OS with an open-source license), Harmony OS is its own distinct product.  Moreover, it uses a different design architecture to Linux, preferring a microkernel design over monolithic kernel.

But wait. Microkernel? Monolithic kernel? I’ve lost you.

Let’s try again. At the heart of every operating system is something called a kernel. Like the name implies, kernels are at the heart of every operating system, effectively serving as a foundation. They handle interactions with the underlying hardware, allocate resources, and define how programs are executed and operated.

All kernels have these fundamental responsibilities. However, they differ in how they work.

Let’s talk about memory. Modern operating systems try to segregate user applications (like Steam or Google Chrome) from the more sensitive parts of the operating system. Imagine an impenetrable line dividing the memory used by system-level services from your applications. There are two main good reasons for this: security and stability.

Microkernels, like the one used by Harmony OS, are extremely discerning about what runs in kernel mode, effectively limiting it to the basics.

Bluntly, monolithic kernels aren’t discerning. Linux, for example, allows many OS-level utilities and processes to run within this privileged space in memory.

At the time Linus Torvalds started work on the Linux kernel, microkernels were still something of an unknown quantity, with few real-world commercial uses. Microkernels also proved harder to develop, and tended to be slower.

Nearly 30 years later, things have changed. Computers are faster and cheaper. Microkernels have made the leap from academia into production.

The XNU kernel, which sits at the heart of macOS and iOS, lends much inspiration from earlier microkernel designs, namely the Mach kernel developed by Carnegie Mellon University. Meanwhile QNX, which forms the basis of the Blackberry 10 operating system, as well as many vehicular infotainment systems, uses a microkernel design.

It’s All About the Extensibility, Man

Because Microkernel designs are intentionally limited, they’re easy to extend. Adding a new system service, like a device driver, doesn’t require the developer to fundamentally alter or interfere with the kernel.

And that hints towards why Huawei chose this approach with Harmony OS. Although Huawei is perhaps best known for its phones, it’s a company involved in most sectors of the consumer technology market. Its lineup includes things like fitness wearables, routers, and televisions.

And let’s not even get into AI, robotics, infrastructure such as roads, trains and intelligent mining and farming initiatives.

And Huawei is an incredibly ambitious company. Taking a leaf from rival Xiaomi’s book, the firm has started selling IoT products through its youth-focused subsidiary Honor, including intelligent toothbrushes and smart desk lamps.

And while it’s not clear whether Harmony OS will run on every bit of consumer technology it ultimately sells, Huawei aspires to have an operating system that will run on as many devices as possible.

Part of the reason is compatibility. If you disregard hardware requirements, any application written for Harmony OS should work on any device running it. That’s an attractive proposition for developers. But it should also have benefits for consumers, too. As more and more devices become computerized, it makes sense for them to be able to easily work as part of a broader ecosystem.

But What About Phones?

It’s been nearly three years since the Trump administration’s Treasury Department placed Huawei on an “entity list,” thereby preventing American firms from trading with the company. While this has exerted pressure on all levels of Huawei’s business, the biggest pain has been felt in the company’s mobile division, preventing it from releasing new devices with Google Mobile Services (GMS) included.

Google Mobile Services is effectively the entire Google ecosystem for Android, including mundane apps like Google Maps and Gmail, as well as the Google Play Store. With Huawei’s latest phones lacking access to most apps, many have wondered whether the Chinese giant will abandon Android, instead moving to a homegrown operating system.

This seems unlikely. At least, in the short term.

For starters, Huawei’s leadership has reiterated its commitment to the Android platform. Instead, it’s focused on developing its own alternative to GMS called Huawei Mobile Services (HMS).

At the heart of this is the company’s app ecosystem, the Huawei AppGallery. Huawei states it’s spending $1 billion to close the “app gap” with the Google Play Store and has 3,000 software engineers working on it.

A new mobile operating system would be forced to start from scratch. Huawei would have to attract developers to port or redevelop their apps for Harmony OS. And, as we’ve learned from Windows Mobile, BlackBerry 10, and Samsung’s Tizen (and previously Bada), that’s not an easy proposition.

That said, Huawei is one of the most well-resourced tech firms in the world. And thus, it would be unwise to completely dismiss the prospect of a Harmony OS-powered phone.

Made in China 2025

There’s an interesting political angle to discuss here. For decades, China has acted as the world’s factory, building products designed overseas. But in recent years, China’s government and its own private sector has invested heavily in research and development. Increasingly, Chinese-designed products are making their way onto the international stage, offering new competition for Silicon Valley’s tech elite.

Amidst this, the Beijing government has an ambition it calls “Made in China 2025.” Effectively, it wants to end its reliance on imported high-tech products, such as semiconductors and airplanes, replacing them with their own homegrown alternatives. The motivation from this stems from economic and political security, as well as national prestige.

Harmony OS fits into this ambition perfectly. If it takes off, it’ll be the first globally successful operating system to emerge from China—with the exception of those used in niche markets, like cellular base stations. These homegrown credentials will come in particularly handy should the cold war between China and the United States continue to rage.

And as a result, I wouldn’t be surprised for Harmony OS to have some very enthusiastic supporters in the central government, as well as within the wider Chinese private sector. And it’s these supporters who will ultimately determine its success.

China Manufactures hardware for the world

99% of all hardware is made in China. What happens when China decides not to preload Windows 10, Apple OS, or Linux and only allows Harmony OS installed?

Sure you can write over the OS when you get the hardware. And that is probably what will happen. Certainly in the USA, American will be FORCED to use American OS.

It will begin as coercion. Where Americans will be warned about the dangers of Harmony OS.

Then it will be mandated by law.

Americans will be FORCED to use American computer operating systems. Just like they are forced to do other things, like pay taxes, buy health insurance, register guns, show identification to buy alcohol, and buy car insurance, etc.

Americans will be forced to use systems to allow their monitoring by the US government.

But that’s not the real concern. Actually. Americans lost their freedoms back hundreds of years ago.

What the real concern is that Microsoft will lose it’s substantial market share, as will google, and Apple. And without this dominance int he market will come a slowly eroding Intel collection ability for the American government.

And the folk at Langley are all in arms about it.

Keep in mind why the United States government wants you to hate Huawei.

Conclusion

The United States dominance on access to privacy, control of information, control of the media, and manipulation of thought are all being challenged by China. And the oligarchy inside of Washington DC do not like this one single bit.

They are flooding the media with warnings, fears and hype and doing everything within their power to assure complete dominance in the intelligence, and communication technologies.

The sheeple believe this.

That is because they have nothing else to compare it against. So they believe the one thousandth article on why Huawei is dangerous and how China is stealing from YOU!

Do not believe it.

If you all could only see things from my point of view, from me…

…standing outside…

…and looking in at the absolutely insanity inside of America today, you too would see what is going on and why.

And a nice little video that I took. I want all you you readers in MM land to start seeing what it is like living outside of America. So that you can see how God-awful America has become. You can watch it HERE. 180MB.

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Keff

A few years ago, I left my Samsung phone on the bus in KL. Being in a foreign country and city for a few days, I decided to buy the cheapest phone I could get so I could communicate with my local friends, wayfinding etc till I could get my phone back from the bus company back in Singapore. So I bought a Xiaomi with the lowest specs. As it turns out, I LOVED it! For not very much money, it had a dual sim, and though the computing speed wasn’t the fastest, it wasn’t half bad. Since breaking that phone, I have since bought another Xiaomi and am sold totally sold on this brand.

Some years ago, when I came to realise how malign the actions of the US foreign policy was, I stopped buying US products and services as far as possible. As in the native American saying about the feeding the two wolves, I decided I was not going to feed the predatory US wolf. Avoiding US potatoes and celery was easy. Even avoiding using VISA is possible in 99% of my transactions. But one thing I could not wean myself off, was the Android on my phone. Now that Harmony is out, I might just get a Huawei and see how it goes.

Thank you for this article, MM.

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Bo Chen

2006 was the era of Windows XP. Unless you were using full disk encryption like TrueCrypt etc all they had to do was mount your hard drive and read off the NTFS directly, no password needed.

If they wanted to find out your XP password back then Windows used a weak hash and a Precomputed rainbow tables could reverse lookup most passwords in minutes.

In a sense it’s good Trump played the android card because sooner or later China must have its own OS anyway… Google is basically CIA/NSA

K-Man

I might be interested in a new desktop computer for home use with the Harmony OS if there are interfaces or compatible software so I can continue to open and use Word and Excel files, PDFs, DJVU files, and the like. I have lots of old stuff I still want to access.

In some ways Harmony v. Windows reminds me of DJVU v. PDF. I have .djvu software as well as Adobe because some in Eastern Europe use it in preference to PDF, and I have noticed the same file usually takes less memory in DJVU than in PDF. That makes DJVU superior in my book.

Maybe I’ll feel the same way about China’s Harmony OS. Anything to tell Bill Gates and his ilk to FOAD.

Daniel

I will get an Huawei phone, maybe one without google services, I think this should be a good path to start walking on. They are not cheap by the way..
Regarding Empire, no XI nor Putin should get near Biden or any other American pawn. Empire does not have morals, allies nor empathy for her own flesh and blood. and Biden is already one foot in the grave. A day after memorial day, it is good to remember how empire uses its finest (not to confuse with Biden..).

dzr

Most people don’t realize it, but the Internet itself was invented by the American military in the late 1960s and 1970s through the Department of Defense’s ARPA (today renamed DARPA) outfit as a *tool of surveillance* against Communist guerillas in the Vietnam War.

In short, using the internet for surveillance was part of its raison d’etre from the git go. It’s not a bug. It’s a feature.

Book Review: Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=17364

More recently, most US social media giants like Facebook, Google, and others are completely in bed with the American government and its spook institutions like the NSA to spy on people around the world and US citizens themselves … to protect (cough) national security and even your health from “threats” like COVID. 

The Military Origins of Facebook
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/04/investigative-reports/the-military-origins-of-facebook/

How the CIA made Google: Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e

Why Google made the NSA
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/why-google-made-the-nsa-2a80584c9c1

Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations are only the tip of the iceberg.

Hell, in 2014, Snowden revealed that the USA was spying on Huawei at least since 2007.

This American spying *against* Huawei was well before the current hysterical allegations about spying by Huawei.

Edward Snowden exposes NSA spying against Chinese telecom firm Huawei
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/03/24/huaw-m24.html?view=print