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Snowden talked about this. The US hold a big share of the electronic's intellectual property. Most of the tools used to design silicon chips are proprietary, a
by jokoon 7y ago
Snowden talked about this.
The US hold a big share of the electronic's intellectual property. Most of the tools used to design silicon chips are proprietary, and it would be trivial for the NSA to implant hardware backdoors without anybody knowing it, and it would be very difficult for the public to audit this hardware.
I think this is exactly why Huawei routers were not trustworthy.
Detecting malware is child's play, now if they want to not be detected, they need to target the hardware. Even if you know your hardware has a backdoor, it becomes too expensive or impossible to patch it.
Always wondered why wifi chips always used binary firmwares? Me too.
- generalpass 7y agoSome random comment I read somewhere stated something like, "for U.S. facing networks, we use Huawei, and for China facing networks, we use Cisco."
- mroche 7y agoHuawei routers and equipment are not trustworthy because they are literally insecure at a firmware level. If you want an interesting read check out the Finite State’s “Supply Chain Assessment” of Huawei’s IoT and networking devices[0] released back in June. The latest episode of Enterprise | Security Weekly, “Please Don’t Go - ESW #156”[1]has Matt Wyckhouse (co-founder and CEO) to discuss the findings and IoT security. You’ll want to go to 1:08:08 to get to it should you opt for the full episode rather then the linked segment. [0] https://finitestate.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Finite-State-SCA1-Final.pdf https://finitestate.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Finite-Sta... [1] https://securityweekly.com/shows/supply-chain-security-in-the-iot-era-matt-wyckhouse-esw-156/ https://securityweekly.com/shows/supply-chain-security-in-th...