The US government has been murmuring about security risks of Huawei gear for years now, mostly without citing any particular technical threats. The report of t

The US government has been murmuring about security risks of Huawei gear for years now, mostly without citing any particular technical threats. The report of the open telnet server was the first thing a lot of us have seen which gives technical substance to those complaints, but it almost certainly didn't motivate the policy response -- which was, in any case, a continuation of pressure tactics that were already underway, domestically and overseas. For example, Michael Hayden, former head of the CIA and NSA, was publicly calling them a security risk as far back as 2013. Timeline: https://www.computerworlduk.com/security/huawei-controversies-timeline-3692840/ https://www.computerworlduk.com/security/huawei-controversie...