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Huawei's equipment poses 'significant' security risks, UK says:
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.
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."
"The issues identified in the OB (oversight board) report provide vital input for the ongoing transformation of our software engineering capabilities," a Huawei spokesperson said.
Other links:
Huawei Equipment Has Major Security Flaws, U.K. Says
Huawei's Perception Problem Deepens as U.K. Spies Identify Security Risks
So don't buy Huawei telecom equipment. Buy only US made telecom equipment. Because the NSA would never put bugs in for spying.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by FatPhil on Friday March 29 2019, @09:33AM
Right, so does MS, so does IBM, so does Cisco, so does Oracle, so does TI, so does Qualcomm, so does fucking everybody.
Any "security" concerns are no more than "we can't prove there aren't back doors, so THERE MIGHT BE BACKDOORS!!!!11!!1".
I know for a fact that a very large US semiconductor company specifically put undocumented security-breaching functionality into some of its chips at the behest of a very large US telecomms company (almost certainly at the behest of the US government, obviously, but I have no evidence of that).
The UK is just doing this because the US did it. We're back into yappy sidekick mode again.
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