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Towards which conclusion? Backdoors are common practice and so we have to assume their existance in foreign equipment? Or we did it first, so let's give the ot
by fh973 7y ago
Towards which conclusion? Backdoors are common practice and so we have to assume their existance in foreign equipment? Or we did it first, so let's give the others a chance to deliver backdoors to us?
- 101404 7y agoTo maintain control over critical communication technology.
- SAI_Peregrinus 7y agoThe problem is that 5g wasn't designed to be secure against malicious carriers & governments. It could have been, and modern cryptographic protocols used over it can be. The assumption that you can trust communications infrastructure is outdated. It must not matter if an adversary has back doored a router or cell tower or similar to send copies of all traffic to them, since the data should be entirely encrypted (except for some minimal routing information). The 3GPP designed the 5G standards to allow back doors, so we get back doors.
- 101404 7y agoWhat if the same company also provides the cellphones and computers used to do the encryption of the data being sent?
- SAI_Peregrinus 7y agoThen you're programming Satan's computer[1] and need to start doing things like using a better trusted OS & compiler. Or go to a different vendor. Since end-user devices need to swap around a lot this tends to be a lot easier than replacing the underlying infrastructure devices. [1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/satan.pdf https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/satan.pdf
- Seenso 7y ago[oops, misread comment.]
- ChuckNorris89 7y agoMaking our own 5G equipment != Actually buying it.