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Pathetic that slashdot has gotten to this point, but the original article has no link to any meaningful information.
in summary:

- this is an exploit in a windows program written by huawei called pcmanager.
- Dell, HP, and even Lenovo have had security bugs in their software as well. The fact that this is a huawei bug means every news outlet gets to ratched up the terror factor for clicks.
- googling the name Alan Woodward returns the exact same article title at nearly 2 dozen news sites, but nothing meaningful about the guy outside of his singular report.
https://www.huawei.com/en/psir...

Since recently, laptops are coming with 3:2 (between 4:3 and 16:10), AND small bezel.
Such as the Huawei Matebook X Pro.

From what I can find, they only ever released Lollipop for the 10" MediaPad T2. No Marshmellow. They did for the 8" model, which is completely different hardware.

It's the only Huawei tablet that matches your specifications of 1920x1200 with 2GB RAM and LTE
http://consumer.huawei.com/en/...

Looks like they also made several hardware versions of this as well. I can see references to FDR-A01W and FDR-A01L

It looks decent:

http://consumer.huawei.com/en/...

Fitness oriented but nevertheless it has 6-14 day battery life and always on LCD screen.

Merely sounds like another tool for the Party to deal with companies that are not state owned. Most companies will be found guilty of some section of this but they won't be prosecuted until they run afoul of the Party.

What is the basis for this belief, other than anecdotes?

Certainly. Here's a text and video advertisement that does imply I can make the "most lifelike enjoyment" with a Huawei tablet. On top of that, I am lead to believe this device provides oculus-like effects during usage. When will the state prosecute themselves, pray tell?

It doesn't have to stop there as I feel that the woman in that commercial is immodestly dressed causing detriment to national dignity or interests. Do you see the problem with ambiguity in the language here?

I've worked in IT for 20+ years. During that time, the security of systems has plummeted. The behaviour required to run systems with a level of 'hygiene' and appropriate controls has been systemic and eroding. Most businesses I see have most staff running as Admin, on old Windows machinery. And you can include significant chunks of government and elsewhere in the same state.

Spyware, and malware have reached a state where defenses and defensive measures are overwhelmed, beaten, ineffective - and the sheer scale and size of 'IT' structures out runs all efforts unless they are highly controlled environments. The points mooted by the Foreign minister are deeply delusional. The idea that you'd open up your security to try and encircle the shambles that is the real world computational landscape is erroneous.

The engineers get over-ruled by management, and the scale of the failings are the end result.

Most Chinese Government sponsored actors (and others) are able to walk into the greater number of interesting targets, and circumvent the appalling data protection layering - and take what they like.

And in due course, if you want to see the full scale hilarity and complete lack of knowledge in the area, I expect UK ministers to be signing up to deals with
http://www.huawei.com/uk/
in due course. At which point you can take it as read that its business as usual and that nobody who talked about it had any idea about what they are talking about.

Current data systems, and how they are operated from are fundamentally broken, and nobody can fix it as it currently stands. It required whole root and branch rethinking, incluing the idea that software can ship, be sold and be used full of security holes and problems, and the authors can write a license that eradicates all responsibility for it in totality, and the world just goes round building stuff on sand.

Yes, HUAWEI... they probably make more communication gear alone that the whole Americas together, but don't let that stop You from your high horse rant.

2010 financial report: http://www.huawei.com/en/ucmf/groups/public/documents/annual_report/hw_084776.pdf

Also, You probably can't pin point Kenya in a fucking map, I know I don't thats why I first research a bit before puking all over the forum.

It would be interesting if the cell phone manufacturers offered a swappable, standardized radio module that would pop in and out like the battery.

It would be much more interesting, and much less expensive, pose no unresolved technical challenges, if the shared-majority wireless operators in the US (Sprint, Verizon), would just use an existing swappable, standardised user identity module, like R-UIM cards. However, they are too concerned with fighting each other to realise that their technology has already lost, due to not being viable in other countries (where R-UIM is a requirement, but all decent phones are made for Sprint and Verizon, almost exclusively without R-UIM support). Not separating the number from the phone makes it too much of a hassle for users to switch phones, sell used phones, travel without roaming etc. (and of course, switching networks, which is what they are actually after, but damaging the whole CDMA market in the process), which are all trivially possible with GSM.

Maybe they could allow roaming to more than just a handful of international CDMA operators. For example, there are multiple CDMA operators in many African countries, (including some that have tens of thousands of US citizens working in them), but not one is supported for roaming by Verizon or Sprint. Verizon seems to have more limited roaming than the cheapest crappiest GSM operators, and Sprint mostly provides roaming via GSM operators (so, if you travel, you already need a dual-tech phone, or two phones, why not just use GSM all the time?).

Huawei (who makes a lot of CDMA-based gear, both telco-side and handsets, mostly for China Telecom I guess) has a nice article covering the issues with CDMA roaming. Most of them are due to "American mindset" that is inherent in CDMA and CDMA deployments. Of course, Huawei is punting their solutions to these problems, but waiting for all CDMA operators to refresh their kit will make you old.

Also, maybe if CDMA operators had consistent international dialing/number representation formats (like the +XX convention used by all GSM operators), users would figure out how to actually make international calls via CDMA. But, who needs numbers that don't start with a "1" anyway ...

That way you could buy an expensive smartphone, and leverage that investment by just picking up a new radio module to move to a new network.

At the moment, 52% of US subscribers can't even move between operators that use the *same* baseband modules (vs less than 15% worldwide). Maybe you should try and solve that problem first.

Ha, you primitive USians. Bow down in front of our superior socialist mobile market.

Even the donkeys in Portugal have higher speeds then you !

Here's a coverage map for one of our local operators in Finland.

I happen to live over 10km from the City of Tampere and still get 8Mbps download 800k upload of stable stream of data transfer. And soon we'll have a 4G / LTE network that'll able to give about 40 / 5 Mbps. Still slower than my 100MB fiber at home though...

I don't know your level of knowledge so bear with me here. One approach would be to look up MAC addresses. Every network card has a code for the manufacturer listed in its MAC address. It's the first six characters. Any address starting with the following would be made by Huawei (1). For example, it may say "Dell" on the front, but if it starts with the below, its Huawei. If you manage a LAN you can compare to the list below. Can one clone/fake MAC addresses? Yes. However, if you run a LAN, I'd like to think you have the authority or knowledge to know if that's going on.

• 000FE2
• 001882
• 001E10
• 0022A1
• 002568
• 00259E
• 00E0FC
• 286ED4
• 6416F0
• 781DBA

Second, at the risk of pointing out the obvious, you could check their products page(2). Danger: Flash and scripts. As partners go, Huawei has at least two: 3Com and Symantec. 3Com's agreement on the surface seems to be a way for them to access the China markets. Symantec and Huawei announced a "joint cloud strategy" selling enterprise NAS products in the US market for starters. Hope this helps!

Source: ------

1. MACs http://www.coffer.com/mac_find/?string=huawei
2. Product page http://www.huawei.com/products_services.do

322TBit in theory is very good and all but does anyone knows what is the largest deployed router?

the only one I could found was:

http://www.huawei.com/news/view.do?id=10930&cid=42

beside, who would want to agregate so much traffic in one place? (beside the NSA)

I have a Huawei router that was given to me as a gift by a friend when I was in Hungary and I haven't used it at all because I'm afraid it contains some kind of backdoor or sniffer. I searched for info on reports of suspicious Huawei products, but couldn't find anything useful. Does anyone here have any info on this?

The Pandora has some of what you desire.

It's got a powerful Arm Cortex-A8 with an efficient GPU, faster than the iPhone one. No SSD, but it has dual-SDHC, giving you up to 64GB of space.

Only a 4.3 "anemic" LCD, but it is high resolution(fine for webpages) and high quality(it was selected because there was no OLED equivalent as far as resolution, power consumption, lifespan, etc.) An OLED would still be superior in direct sunlight, but I think they made a good choice. It's also has a touchscreen, though admittedly not the same type as the iPhone. (works best with stylus)

The big negative for you would be no 3G. You need an external dongle to do that. I think these things were verified to work.

ARM Ubuntu does run on the Pandora prototypes, but they're putting lots of effort into modifying the Angstrom distro to suit the device. It seems to be pretty user friendly and run fast enough, so most of us early adopters will probably just use that.

The big thing where it nails your desires is power consumption. (300+ hours in standby) They've stated it should last months in standby, if their dev boards are anything to go on, while your battery is still relatively new.

Under load you can expect at least 10 hours battery life. (This would be watching vids or playing games/emus) No guarantees for 24 hours when web browsing, but for music at least 24 hours is expected. One of the creators said they already have aggressive power management built into the kernel, so it should downclock for light usage tasks to save watts.

Best yet, the cost is only $340 USD, and they'll toss in another 4000mAh Li-Po battery for a meagre $30.

It fits about 60-80% of what you want, if you're willing to get over the screen size. Look into it.

Anywhere that's not the USA, pretty much. (read: GSM-using countries)

And as for the NIC..

USB: http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/products/view.do?id=282
Expresscard: http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/products/view.do?id=780
PCMCIA: http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/products/view.do?id=145

And that's just one manufacturer. I'm sure you can find miniPCI versions around. UMTS is bloody good.. but expensive.

Anywhere that's not the USA, pretty much. (read: GSM-using countries)

And as for the NIC..

USB: http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/products/view.do?id=282
Expresscard: http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/products/view.do?id=780
PCMCIA: http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/products/view.do?id=145

And that's just one manufacturer. I'm sure you can find miniPCI versions around. UMTS is bloody good.. but expensive.

Anywhere that's not the USA, pretty much. (read: GSM-using countries)

And as for the NIC..

USB: http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/products/view.do?id=282
Expresscard: http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/products/view.do?id=780
PCMCIA: http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/products/view.do?id=145

And that's just one manufacturer. I'm sure you can find miniPCI versions around. UMTS is bloody good.. but expensive.

I can't speak for the executives but IMO what the parent said is quite true.

Also, don't forget that if Cisco is forced to deal with the human right issues and the PRC government is fed up, she can go to Huawei http://www.huawei.com/ instead for all the equipment and solutions she need.

Considering the lawsuit Cisco brought against Huawei before, what else could be a better middle-finger than this?

If what the stockholders concern most is short-term profit, I guess this issue maybe better leave aside.

Eventually Indian companies will run their own engineers and see some efficiencies that way. Then USA OEMs could see some serious competition.

China is the step ahead on this... Just look how Huawei sucks up engineers from companies like Cisco, Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks, and transfer their knowledge (proprietary or not) into their own product line.

China is really waking up to the language barrier. China has woken up to the competition it faces India. It has already introduced English in Primary education. Here, India is getting very hostile to China's competition to India's crown jewel. In fact, the hostility is so high, that the entire media here had made an issue of allegation about the chinese company, Huawei Tech links with the taliban. The Indian software industry dissmisses it threat.