4 ms·
Isn't China's recent law requiring all companies to comply with government data requests enough? What if Huawei (willingly or not) put in a backdoor tomorrow? A
by chibg10 8y ago
Isn't China's recent law requiring all companies to comply with government data requests enough? What if Huawei (willingly or not) put in a backdoor tomorrow? Are we supposed to be prepared to rip out all telecom equipment nationwide and replace it overnight to accommodate Huawei?
- devoply 8y agoYes the same goes for the US and its equipment and companies operating in other countries. Moving forward the only way to be secure is for your country to have its own equipment which is open source based.
- chibg10 8y agoThe US doesn't have a Huawei equivalent. Nokia and Ericsson are the Western counterparts in telecom iirc, and neither is American. The leading US smartphone seller is Apple, and there's nobody seriously comparing Apple to Huawei in data privacy. There are other differences as well. US companies can and do successfully push back against US government data requests (see Apple and the backdoor). The US government, despite its many flaws, is also far less aggressive and has a far more laissez-faire approach to governance in general than the CCP. This is true both domestically and in foreign affairs.
- devoply 8y agoDid you just forget about Cisco? https://medium.com/@lia640230/cisco-vs-huawei-which-one-is-the-better-choice-for-ethernet-switches-59ffd324117d https://medium.com/@lia640230/cisco-vs-huawei-which-one-is-t... https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141/snowden--the-nsa-planted-backdoors-in-cisco-products.html https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141/snowden--the-nsa-p...
- zaphirplane 8y agoNo it doesn’t this is about the US blocking another country’s vendor from selling to certain US buyers. The US already has US vendors