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This is interesting. What this says to me is that the UK is essentially saying to China "Yeah we'll play your game". They're expecting some sort of attack, but
by fredley 8y ago
This is interesting. What this says to me is that the UK is essentially saying to China "Yeah we'll play your game". They're expecting some sort of attack, but they reckon that they've got the capability (at GCHQ or wherever) to counter that, and possibly turn the tables by feeding back counterintelligence.
It could potentially be a good book in 1-200 years' time once all this is declassified.
- unmole 8y agoOr, could it be possible that they audited the code and found no backdoors or security issues? Now that would be crazy! /s
- krona 8y agoNot really. The public reports detail the altogether deficient way the hardware and software is being developed and manufactured. Hauwei know what they are and have failed to improve (much) over the past few years.
- giancarlostoro 8y agoOn that note, backdoors would either be hidden in proprietary apps, or delivered through OTA updates. Maybe a mix of both. I'd be interested in a diff of stock binaries vs recompiled "source" binaries to see if they differ significantly enough.
- pjc50 8y agoYears ago someone was telling me about the GCHQ facility at Martlesham Heath that was reverse-engineering all the incoming kit for use by BT. I think that pre-dated the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre in Banbury. HCSEC is a bit odd, it seems to be a joint venture between the fox and hens to guard the henhouse.
- entity345 8y agoEveryone expects attacks from everyone else... And conducts attacks on everyone else.