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The risk of backdoors in encryption has changed since the last crypto wars. With Huawei entering the 5G market, all ostensible law enforcement encryption backd

The risk of backdoors in encryption has changed since the last crypto wars. With Huawei entering the 5G market, all ostensible law enforcement encryption backdoors now become de-facto Chinese communist party backdoors because of the pervasiveness of their equipment, and that nations interception capabilities. The UK and Canada have approved Huawei to supply critical networks, and now end-to-end encryption on our personal devices is the only thing preventing interception by Beijing. It also explains why the US president was so angry with Bojo over approving Huawei, because it means if the U.S. allows Huawei, it must also allow end to end encryption for citizens to protect themselves. The national security priority of mitigating that aggressive foreign interception capability for every business in the country should outweigh the special interest of law enforcement using victims groups as human shields.

jszymborski 7y ago
> The UK and Canada have approved Huawei to supply critical networks, If you're referring to 5G, Huawei has yet to be given a green light in Canada. Perhaps you're referring to some other infrastructure, however.
- mrybczyn 7y ago
  You mean other than Huawei 5g being chosen and deployed (or about to be) at Telus 1 of the 3 major carriers? And the fact that both Telus and Bell use Huawei for their 4g/LTE networks?
  - dblohm7 7y ago
    That does not mean that the government has approved it. In fact, the telcos are freaked out right now that the government will say no and force the telcos to replace the Huawei stuff.
vkou 7y ago
> With Huawei entering the 5G market, all ostensible law enforcement encryption backdoors now become de-facto Chinese communist party backdoors because of the pervasiveness of their equipment, and that nations interception capabilities. How is this different from those backdoors being CIA/NSA backdoors, when that equipment was made by US vendors? Nothing fundamentally changed. We should be building protocols that don't require us to trust the underlying network.
- alfiedotwtf 7y ago
  > How is this different The only difference is who you hear breathing on the other end of your line

jszymborski 7y ago

> The UK and Canada have approved Huawei to supply critical networks, If you're referring to 5G, Huawei has yet to be given a green light in Canada. Perhaps you're referring to some other infrastructure, however.

mrybczyn 7y ago
You mean other than Huawei 5g being chosen and deployed (or about to be) at Telus 1 of the 3 major carriers? And the fact that both Telus and Bell use Huawei for their 4g/LTE networks?
- dblohm7 7y ago
  That does not mean that the government has approved it. In fact, the telcos are freaked out right now that the government will say no and force the telcos to replace the Huawei stuff.

vkou 7y ago

> With Huawei entering the 5G market, all ostensible law enforcement encryption backdoors now become de-facto Chinese communist party backdoors because of the pervasiveness of their equipment, and that nations interception capabilities. How is this different from those backdoors being CIA/NSA backdoors, when that equipment was made by US vendors? Nothing fundamentally changed. We should be building protocols that don't require us to trust the underlying network.

alfiedotwtf 7y ago
> How is this different The only difference is who you hear breathing on the other end of your line