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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?"
Sorry, but there is absolutely no company in the world that has this thing called "character".
When American telecom companies won contracts to supply soviet satellite, I think it was Poland, with telecom equipment, The CIA or NSA or both managed to get back doors into the equipment to both monitor calls and in the event of hostilities, to shut the phone system down completely. If American companies let their Government subvert their technology in foreign countries, China would be foolish not to.
Yes, though there's no evidence of any improper activities from any Huawei gear, and they are already a step ahead of US voting machines.
In the US, voting machines pick the next president. With secret closed-source code in an industry with proven fraud and from companies with proven previous errors.
In Australia, they have the source code for routers running a residential broadband network, and that's not good enough.
Why does something seem wrong with that?
Learn to love Alaska
The way this works is: 1. Cisco lobby US gov. 2. US gov put pressure on Aus gov. 3. Aus gov create FUD about cisco rival. 4. Aus gov buy cisco. 5. Profit - cisco and US senators.
Users... the only thing keeping 1st level support from being the bottom feeders.
Is there anything new Slashdot can offer, other than this same old China bashing orgy?
If you think that equipments from Huawei is dangerous, what makes you think that Cisco equipment don't come with backdoors?
Which equipment the Stuxnet virus targeted?
Equipment from China or those from the Western countries?
It's easy to bash China - as China has become the poster boy for bashing orgy - from Presidential debate to this one in Slashdot - but I do expect MORE from those who come to Slashdot.
Unlike the tweedledee and tweedeldum on the presidential debate, you guys do have brains.
It's time you use your brain to think, rather than letting others doing the thinking for you.
If Huawei (and all equipments from all Chinese companies) are suspicious, what makes you think that equipments from Germany or Japan or Britain or Korea or Canada or USA aren't?
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !