Erik Bethel

their solar industry and

was it last week or the week before, I think it was last week, an article, a series of articles came out saying that China has put back doors, kill switches in all the solar panels they're sending to the US.

And so just makes you scratch your head and say, why?

Why do we depend on China for things that are very critical to our survival?

And I think, as Eric mentioned, pharmaceuticals, antibiotics, penicillin, these are things that we should not outsource.

It's ridiculous.

Next time.

Salt typhoon?

I mean, I can, like, very briefly.

This is all, it's all out in the open.

You know, FBI Director Chris Wray, it was last year, mentioned that, well, let me provide a little bit of background.

After 9-11...

we needed to find bad guys.

And so we created the Patriot Act and we asked the telco carriers to put in back doors so that we could listen in to bad guys wanting to blow stuff up.

Now, we can't access the phone conversations without a FISA warrant because we have the Fourth Amendment and we have rules and regulations that stipulate what we can and can't do.

but the back door has existed for decades.

Guess what?

China hacked into the back door.

Guess who doesn't need a FISA warrant to listen into your phone conversations?

And so that's when the FBI, and you can look it up, the hack is called Salt Typhoon.