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Fair enough, but the USA intelligence services aren't exactly innocent either when it comes to security issues. When the EternalBlue exploit was stolen/leaked, they took MONTHS to tell Microsoft, leading to the NHS being hacked among others.
Innocent mistake? Maybe, but if we start probing on links between the USA and Cisco will nothing show up? Or any hacking tools being left out and forgotten about? How do we decide what is truly politically motivated and what is just a big mistake?
Cisco is very happy selling to China as part of their big government spying program. And there was just a massive hole found in their kit...will China say they won't buy any Cisco anymore?
There can definitely be some smoke, but then there is smoke everywhere atm. The UK has hacked a phone provider in Belgium and spied on Amnesty for example... But we also know China/Russia have hacking teams. So, who can we really trust?
I rather see an independent body scrutinizing security of kit, though as Greenbank explains it is really hard. It is all turning into the x-files "trust no one" atm.
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JWestland
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I don't know enough about technology to argue on a basis of this or that type of code, but in general I don't subscribe to the "it's just a trade war" argument.
Huawei were founded by Chinese army officers, and in early years predominantly functioned as a supplier to the red army. From my reading, mostly the Economist, it has been considered notoriously difficult to untangle where Huawei ends and the Chinese military begins.