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I'm still somewhat skeptical about in how far Huawei is merely incompetent and this is part of a trade war narrative, and in how far it could be intentional.
Cisco kit has security holes as well, I don't hear the same screaming about the USA maybe having backdoors in Cisco kit.
But that narrative won't suit the USA.
JWestland-
Totally agree. There's something else driving this.
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I'm still somewhat skeptical about in how far Huawei is merely incompetent and this is part of a trade war narrative, and in how far it could be intentional.
Cisco kit has security holes as well, I don't hear the same screaming about the USA maybe having backdoors in Cisco kit.
But that narrative won't suit the USA.
As the article you link in your next post - the US will share data with countries that use Cisco, they won't if they use Huawei.
Given that the Tories want to detach us from Europe and make us a detached US state, this really matters to them.
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Cisco kit has security holes as well, I don't hear the same screaming about the USA maybe having backdoors in Cisco kit.
Not publicly, but there's lots of screaming about it in the IT world:
(random article): https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cisco-backdoor-hardcoded-accounts-software,37480.html
The problem is that you never know whether the bug that can be exploited to end up in full eavesdropping was just a result of sloppy development practices or whether it was accidental-on-purpose.
Add on to that the possibility that Cisco (and other US manufacturers) kit was being tampered with prior during the export process:-
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141/snowden--the-nsa-planted-backdoors-in-cisco-products.html
Hardware/software is nigh on impossible to validate: Is the source code you're looking at the source code that builds the product? Has the build been modified post compilation? Do you trust the compilation tool chain? Has the hardware been scrutinised? Could extra bits (that haven't been assessed) have been snuck in? etc. So called "reproducible builds" are an ongoing unsolved problem in computing.
I personally think that they've suddenly realised that china has had free reign on our networks for a decade.
I'd agree, and I think they're just realising how much of an impact this has had and how much more it will be in the future and that they have no idea how to solve it.
Stonehedge
Dammit
Greenbank
It has been public knowledge that Huawei have been compromising infrastructure devices in Europe since 2009. I was briefed on it during a government role in 2010. Huawei said the problems were fixed but I believe that more were found. Nobody seemed concerned.
I'd like to understand why this has only now become a hot topic.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/30/18523701/huawei-vodafone-italy-security-backdoors-vulnerabilities-routers-core-network-wide-area-local