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Chinese vendor Huawei has provided a longer response to US allegations of spying, claiming that it doesn't have the spying capability alleged by the US and pointing out that the US itself has a long history of spying on phone networks.
"As evidenced by the Snowden leaks, the United States has been covertly accessing telecom networks worldwide, spying on other countries for quite some time," Huawei said in a six-paragraph statement sent to news organizations. "The report by the Washington Post this week about how the CIA used an encryption company to spy on other countries for decades is yet additional proof." (That Post report detailed how the CIA bought a company called Crypto AG and used it to spy on communications for decades.)
Huawei's latest statement came in response to a Wall Street Journal report yesterday quoting US officials as saying, "We have evidence that Huawei has the capability secretly to access sensitive and personal information in systems it maintains and sells around the world." The US has been sharing its intelligence with allies as it tries to convince them to stop using Huawei products but still hasn't made the evidence public.
Huawei said:
US allegations of Huawei using lawful interception are nothing but a smokescreen—they don't adhere to any form of accepted logic in the cyber security domain. Huawei has never and will never covertly access telecom networks, nor do we have the capability to do so. The Wall Street Journal is clearly aware that the US government can't provide any evidence to support their allegations, and yet it still chose to repeat the lies being spread by these US officials. This reflects The Wall Street Journal's bias against Huawei and undermines its credibility.
[...]US allegations that Huawei secretly uses backdoors that were designed for law enforcement, if true, would bolster arguments from security experts that it's not possible to build backdoors that can only be accessed by their intended users in law enforcement.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Friday February 14 2020, @03:26PM (1 child)
Um...parent didn't actually make any of these claims. It hasn't been *proved* that Huawei is doing anything nefarious, while it has been with the NSA. And yet the NSA want us to trust them.
If Huawei is spying on people, doesn't mean that they aren't also helping the Chinese government do so. Compare how pretty much any rando American company is more than happy to start throwing private user data at our own government if The Man coughs in their general direction (with the possible exception of Apple).
The line of bull we're being fed is that the NSA are the good guys, and everybody else is bad. I assume *everybody* is bad, including the NSA.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 16 2020, @08:39AM
So far all I've seen is stuff like this: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/us-gave-allies-evidence-that-huawei-can-snoop-on-phone-networks-wsj-says/ [arstechnica.com]
Basically claims without any real evidence. Which is strange considering all the hackers out there looking at such stuff. Imagine being the hacker releasing hard proof of Huawei's spying.
I'm sure there are the usual obvious stuff like "secret" admin accounts: https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-threat-isnt-backdoors-its-bugs/ [wired.com]
But that's the same for Cisco stuff too: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cisco-backdoor-hardcoded-accounts-software,37480.html [tomshardware.com]