Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, August 23rd 2018.

I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Australia Bands Chinese telecoms equipment.

Microsoft might offer an Xbox subscription that includes the whole console.

New DJI drones are released.

Alex Stamos writes about hacking the 2018 election and the

backlash against the App Store tax. Here's what you missed today in the world

of tech.

It turns out it's not just the Trump administration that fears

allowing foreign tech companies to produce hardware

and software infrastructure for modern telecommunications

networks could be a national security threat.

Australia has apparently banned Huawei and ZTE from providing 5G equipment to build out that country's

new telecom networks, citing risks of foreign interference and hacking.

Quote, in a statement on Thursday, two Australian ministers indicated that the government

would move to exclude certain equipment vendors from the nation's 5G networks. Companies that quote are likely to be subject to

extra judicial directions from a foreign government and quote pose unacceptable

security risks the ministers said.

Neither Wawa nor ZTE were specifically named in the Australian statement,

but the two companies' ties to Beijing have long been cited by United States officials to justify keeping them out of

American mobile networks."

On Twitter, Huawei Australia posted the following, quote,

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