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How these phone systems work is that Huawei has access to them to send updates and can remote in. Same with American or European telecom manufactures. In case
by gscott 7y ago
How these phone systems work is that Huawei has access to them to send updates and can remote in. Same with American or European telecom manufactures. In case of a war or conflict the Chinese government can order Huawei to shut down systems they have installed in foreign countries anytime. So while it might be an economic objective to sell more Huawei systems there is a security angle to that for every Huawei phone system running that it can be shut down remotely or sent a bad update that shuts it down. Which would be magic if a country aligns with the United States against China in some sort of conflict even if that country never goes into battle it will still be punished by China in a way that will take millions of dollars and probably months to recover from.
- ashildr 7y agoSo what you are saying is that components of the 5G network have their management interfaces connected to the internet and some kind of auto-update on that downloads updates from Chinese servers? I’m not entirely convinced of your expertise.
- gscott 7y agoPretty much, I can't find the reference article now but this article below is good for just about anything that is going to be remotely managed by China: https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3038655/china-can-turn-philippine-national-power-grid-officials-say https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3038655/chin...
- bnjms 7y agoThere would be a management network to vpn into and a server for storing images on. It would require planning but he’s right.