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Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment

posted by martyb on Tuesday April 30 2019, @06:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the Can-you-hear-me-now? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Bloomberg:

For months, Huawei Technologies Co. has faced U.S. allegations that it flouted sanctions on Iran, attempted to steal trade secrets from a business partner and has threatened to enable Chinese spying through the telecom networks it's built across the West.

Now Vodafone Group Plc has acknowledged to Bloomberg that it found vulnerabilities going back years with equipment supplied by Shenzhen-based Huawei for the carrier's Italian business. While Vodafone says the issues were resolved, the revelation may further damage the reputation of a major symbol of China's global technology prowess.

Europe's biggest phone company identified hidden backdoors in the software that could have given Huawei unauthorized access to the carrier's fixed-line network in Italy, a system that provides internet service to millions of homes and businesses, according to Vodafone's security briefing documents from 2009 and 2011 seen by Bloomberg, as well as people involved in the situation.

Only the Five Eyes, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are allowed to spy.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by legont on Tuesday April 30 2019, @10:57PM (1 child)

    by legont (4179) on Tuesday April 30 2019, @10:57PM (#836937)

    The issue is simple. Hawaii is at least two years ahead in 5G space while the US is considering it so important that even nationalization is on the table. https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/28/politics/trump-nationalize-5g/index.html [cnn.com]

    Even New Yorker is apparently aware https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/the-terrifying-potential-of-the-5g-network [newyorker.com]

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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday April 30 2019, @11:57PM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday April 30 2019, @11:57PM (#836971)

    That New Yorker piece is interesting, but many of the claims about 5G are the same claims made about GSM 2G and 3G when they were being developed, and none of them happened.

    Two words explain the difference between our current wireless networks and 5G: speed and latency. 5G—if you believe the hype—is expected to be up to a hundred times faster. (A two-hour movie could be downloaded in less than four seconds.) That speed will reduce, and possibly eliminate, the delay—the latency—between instructing a computer to perform a command and its execution. This, again, if you believe the hype, will lead to a whole new Internet of Things, where everything from toasters to dog collars to dialysis pumps to running shoes will be connected.

    "If you believe the hype".

    I have heard the hype again and again over the last 20 years, and I don't believe it.

    Also, your Mr. Trump is not nationalising any of your network and neither is anyone else. The massively profitable cartel that owns it all will never allow it, and they spend an awful amount on having their way with your legislators

    They're not giving that up without a fight, and those sorts of fights are never lost by the corporations who own Congress.