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Verizon is following AT&T's lead and cancelling plans to sell Huawei's Mate 10 Pro smartphone that boasts support for the upcoming super-fast 5G network, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday.
Verizon's decision is reportedly based on political pressure from the US government, which is seeing a reinvigorated fear of spying from China as US regulators urged an investigation of Chinese-made telecom equipment in December 2017. It's the same reason AT&T dropped its deal with Huawei to offer the Mate 10 Pro on January 8.
Huawei's Mate 10 Pro with 5G networking capabilities seemingly falls under the category of Chinese-made telecom equipment under investigation, as the company has been accused of having ties with the Chinese government.
Previously: U.S. Lawmakers Urge AT&T to Cut Ties With Huawei
Related: U.S. Government Reportedly Wants to Build a 5G Network to Thwart Chinese Spying
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 31 2018, @10:16AM
processors and user-servicable signing keys, including the ability to wipe the vendor/oem signing key.
And mandate source code for the firmware.
Oh right... if these hard choices were made, people might start asking the US to do the same for US manufactured hardware/firmware and some stuff might come out that would put the US Government and its corporate cronies in an unflattering light...
Seriously, if we want secure hardware we need to start pushing governments worldwide for truly open systems with user replaceable encryption and open and documented firmware/software at all levels of the stack. It won't stop shit like spectre, meltdown, or intentionally designed hardware exploits, but it will go a long ways towards helping reduce vectors of attack, and hopefully allow the hardware to be secure in a subset of usages without threat of remote access or exploit.