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Related: I listened to yesterday's very good Fresh Air interview with David Sanger. https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2019/01/31/690290207/fresh-air-for-j
by Wistar 8y ago
Related: I listened to yesterday's very good Fresh Air interview with David Sanger.
https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2019/01/31/690290207/fresh-air-for-jan-31-2019-could-chinese-telecom-giant-huawei-puts-u-s-cyber-secu?showDate=2019-01-31 https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2019/01/31/690290207/...
Sanger is a national security correspondent for the NYT and recently wrote a book about cyberwar and cyber-sabotage called "The Perfect Weapon."
One key thing I got out of it is that, even though the U.S. has forbid the use of any Huawei products in the U.S. 5G network build-out, he thinks it would be very difficult for even the U.S. to sufficiently test Huawei's 5G infrastructure products — he points hardest at their software-based switches — to ensure that they are not fundamentally compromised in ways that could give great advantage to the Chinese government.
Audio and transcripts available at the above link.