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Huawei Offers 'Complete and Unrestricted' Source Code Access
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports that 'Huawei has offered to give Australia unrestricted access to its software source code and equipment, as it looks to ease fears that it is a security threat. Questions have been raised about the Chinese telecom firm's ties to the military, something it has denied. Australia has previously blocked Huawei's plans to bid for work on its national broadband network. Huawei said it needed to dispel myths and misinformation.' But is this sufficient? Will they be able to obscure any backdoors written into their equipment?"
It does not matter one whit if they're releasing everything including the ASIC code, masks, etc.
Don't let foreign assholes make your critical infrastructure. Period. Don't ship anything out of country. Don't rely on the companies in your country not to be idiots. If it is going into critical infrastructure you'd best have control of it.
Yea, it will put a screeching halt to the wonderful progress we've had and that is unfortunate but China and others seem to want to slit our throats so we should slit their profits.
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
But they're Chinese... in Chinese culture, imitation is the greatest flattery
They should be HAPPY and PROUD that we would fabricate new asics from their designs without paying them...