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Fine you want to keep your blinkered view that's fine

We can no more trust or not trust Huawei as any other hardware supplier such as Cisco, Juniper, Intel or AMD or the likes of Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others. Jon Honeyball has an excellent piece on the subject of national security in this month's PCPro (ed. 296 June 2019, p130).

To quote Honeyball "We logically ought to be applying the same amount of cynicism to everything from the US. Fair's fair."

https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-02-26
https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-03-28
https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-02-25

Edited by GonePostal (Mon 08-Apr-19 15:17:36)

In reply to a post by MCM:

We can no more trust or not trust Huawei as any other hardware supplier such as Cisco, Juniper, Intel or AMD or the likes of Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others. Jon Honeyball has an excellent piece on the subject of national security in this month's PCPro (ed. 296 June 2019, p130).

To quote Honeyball "We logically ought to be applying the same amount of cynicism to everything from the US. Fair's fair."

No it isn't. Whatever the faults of the west they don't have the coercive force on companies to aid the state in espionage abroad. Doesn't mean they get a free pass for whatever flaws exist or they might put in for their own purposes but its not the same as China/Russia/NK etc

Exactly. The simple fact is that the Five Eyes can't impose conditions on a Chinese company to introduce the back doors they want. The fact Huawei are trying not to implement any such backdoor from any government - western or Chinese should actually be seen as a Good Thing.

Given that Ericsson and Nokia, who are Huawei's biggest competitors in this space aren't exactly ingratiating themselves, as far as I'm concerned, I'd be happier *with* Huawei kit than without.

In reply to a post by Garlic:

Whatever the faults of the west they don't have the coercive force on companies to aid the state in espionage abroad.

And just how do we know this?

Coercion comes in many forms.

You want to supply us with (xxx) Well how can you help us to help you....

What evidence do you have to support your assertions? IMO none whatsoever. May I suggest removing those rose tinted spectacles. I for one no more trust the US government to be acting any differently than the Chinese in this respect.

+1

Damn straight.