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Huawei's Equipment Poses 'Significant' Security Risks, UK Says (cnbc.com)
The U.K. government warned on Thursday Huawei's telecommunications equipment raises "significant" security issues, posing a possible setback to the Chinese tech firm as it looks to build out 5G networks. From a report: In 46-page report evaluating Huawei's security risks, British officials stopped short of calling for a ban of Huawei's 5G telecommunications equipment. But the assessment cited "underlying defects" in the company's software engineering and cybersecurity processes, citing "significantly increased risk to U.K. operators." The findings give weight to warnings from U.S. officials who have argued Huawei's networking equipment could be used for espionage by the Chinese government. Huawei has repeatedly said it does not pose any risk and insists it would not share customer data with Beijing. In a statement Thursday, Huawei said it takes the U.K. government's findings "very seriously."
How does it compare to the competition? It's not like there's been too much of a stellar privacy and security conscious record in the whole industry...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
If I were driving Hauwei at this point I would open-source all the software running on my devices. Their competitive edge is in slave-labor manufacturing and insane levels of customer financing, not technical innovation.
Of course they would still have to address the possibility of silicon or FPGA based backdoors but that might be worked out in a similar way.
This is just the UK government towing the US line, because in a few weeks it may be rather desperate for a trade deal. No harm in getting the ass-kissing started early.
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Remember when the UK supported the US fantasy of WMD in Iraq?
The US says "jump". The UK government asks "how high?"
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