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?"

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[bjb_admin]

Does the Australian Govt have anyone that can actually properly security audit this? I am sure they are not going to want to spend the money to hire someone who can. Also, who is to say the binary blob firmware doesn't have a back door. Its not like the Australians are going to compile it and install it themselves.

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[rtb61]

Nothing to do with believable. I came across a disabled prototype on the internet. Based around a larger cheap version of a typical part with a high cost smaller version built into the casing leaving ample room for a chip to be inserted in the power pathway. Simplest function burnout the chip and cut power upon the correct pass code being picked up in the power supply. Imagine inserted that part inserted throughout your infrastructure, upon the code being detected every device using that part is now dead. Attempt to insert a replacement, it receives the signal and dies. You whole supply chain is corrupted and it could take weeks to resolve, especially when it's the telecommunications infrastructure disrupted.