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We basically invented the supply chain style of cyber attack.
I presume all the backdoors the US have put into kit from vendors like Cisco over the years is why they are so concerned about Chinese control of Huawei.
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I presume all the backdoors the US have put into kit from vendors like Cisco over the years is why they are so concerned about Chinese control of Huawei.
Pretty much. Thats definitely part of it. The US used to be a cyber superpower and now they're rattled because others have become better at it than them. Kind of like the cold war but with backdoors instead of bombs.
Stonehedge
I wouldn't let it bother you too much. The UK and US digitally attack infrastructure in other countries all the time. Its just not in the press here. We basically invented the supply chain style of cyber attack.
The same way that the Chinese attacks on the West aren't publicised much there. Don't underestimate how politicised the issue is too, particularly over the Huawei stuff. They haven't been a threat for years...its just politically beneficial to paint them as that at the moment. There's a quiet cyber war going on and our press like to paint us as the innocent victims.
Edit; Good read about the NSA hacking the shit out of Huawei before it was cool https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/nsa-breached-chinese-servers-seen-as-spy-peril.html?_r=1