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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday August 08 2019, @10:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the many-eyes dept.

Networking equipment is one of the last bastions of technology where opaque, proprietary, closed-source hardware continues to thrive. This opacity—combined with networking equipment functioning as the backbone of enterprise computing—creates a fertile breeding ground for fear, uncertainty, and doubt to proliferate. As a result of this, Huawei has spent nearly a decade embattled by accusations of spying for the Chinese government, and since May, a blacklisting.

[...] There's an aphorism named "Linus's Law" which states "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." This plausibly applies to Huawei's circumstances: Publishing the full source code to Huawei products is a simplistic—and maximalist—way of dealing with security vulnerabilities and undercut accusations of spying that have plagued Huawei for years.

Opening Huawei products to third-party scrutiny would—at a minimum—surface situations where third-party open-source libraries are not being properly updated, if not allow security researchers the ability to identify vulnerabilities in Huawei-developed code. Such an initiative could also be used to create a shared build platform, making security updates easier to deploy across different device models.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/huawei-doesnt-see-open-source-as-the-fix-for-spying-accusations-but-they-should/


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 08 2019, @10:18PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 08 2019, @10:18PM (#877651)

    China isn't communist, they're free market capitalists.

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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday August 08 2019, @11:02PM (1 child)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Thursday August 08 2019, @11:02PM (#877668) Journal

    One Party Surveillance State.

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    "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 09 2019, @12:18AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 09 2019, @12:18AM (#877687)

    China is more like Fascist state...

  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 09 2019, @05:28PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday August 09 2019, @05:28PM (#877976) Journal

    China isn't communist, they're free market capitalists.

    They're both...