Leaked White House Report Finds No Evidence Of Huawei Spying
from the politics-at-work dept
Remember that Congressional report from last week that warned everyone to fear Huawei, the Chinese telco equipment maker? Much of the fearmongering was around Huawei’s close ties to the Chinese government (and military specifically) with no actual allegations, but plenty of speculation that there could be espionage issues. Of course, now, details of a White House report have leaked, claiming that they found no evidence of Huawei spying. They do point out that there are problems with Huawei equipment that could lead to exploitable security flaws — which is certainly an issue. Of course, that seems like an issue that security experts to deal with, rather than politicians…
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Comments on “Leaked White House Report Finds No Evidence Of Huawei Spying”
But but but cyberdeggon!!!!
It has to be them!!!!!
ZOMG FOR THE CHILDREN AND THE CHILDREN OF TERRORISTS!
oh wait…
Tired of media churn. Tired of sound bite politics. Tired of watching the country devolve into a pool of blathering morons.
WH could be lying, mistaken, incompetent, or is a false leak.
Mike chooses to believe the least likely one of the five.
Know how to better ensure there’s no hidden tricks here or anywhere, Mike? — SUSPECT SO UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE. — But you don’t even suspect nothin’.
Re: WH could be lying, mistaken, incompetent, or is a false leak.
That’s only 4, Bright Boy.
Kinda takes the wind out of your thesis.
Re: WH could be lying, mistaken, incompetent, or is a false leak.
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Re: Re: Re: WH could be lying, mistaken, incompetent, or is a false leak.
No one said he was gay, they said he illegally downloads gay porn. Don’t have to be gay to enjoy a bit of porn.
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This has be in the funniest comments of the week… Have my funny vote dear sir. Now to grab a towel to clean the mess – which reminds me I should not drink while reading a comment marked with LOL.
Problems that could lead to exploitable security flaws? You can say the same about all computer/networking equipment/software.
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Maybe Sony, the Whitehouse, StratFor, Iranian uranium centrifuges etc, etc have all been using Huawei equipment?
You don’t have to worry about the Chinese spying. The WH will take care of that for them. They just need a few more laws passed saying it’s legal to take your data.
All this pumping about cybergadden? The only reason the government is concerned is that they’ve already initiated it all. They now fear retaliation from their own works.
Remember, the pentagon has already said it considered cyberwarfare an act of war. So what has been going on with Iran? They didn’t even wait to declare war, they just went in and started dishing out malware. Now that Iran is starting to set up to dish it back out at the US banks and the like, suddenly the US is concerned with virtual warfare.
DUH!
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“They just need a few more laws passed saying it’s legal to take your data. “
Actually, I think both parties have proven that they really don’t care what they laws are, they will take your data and dare you to challenge the government’s AUTHORITA!
I can’t wait for them to keep making the same accusations, get called out for shamelessly lying to the public, and then still keep making the same accusations. (Shouldn’t take more than a week or two.)
Wasn’t the White House hacked a few weeks ago? Sarcastically, let’s ask whether we REALLY consider them an authority on the subject…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/white-house-hacked-cyber-_n_1928646.html
Huawei or No Way
Huawei is da best. Hopefully dem gonna keep long time transmits for good…no more security
i am sure that if looked for, there will be found problems with all manufacturers equipment that could lead to exploitable security flaws. this has only been brought up over Huawei because of it being near to election time and some prick in government has got it in for the Chinese. that is, until the Chinese has something the US doesn’t have but desperately wants!
History shows that trusting a communist nation is a very dangerous thing
This is not merely a technical issue (non-political) if the security “flaws” are INTENTIONAL. Take the infamous N.S.A. private security keys found in Microsoft’s software many years ago placed allow the U.S. government to spy into any Window-based “private” network. This sort of thing isn’t just some rare occurrence. Spying and dirty tricks are NORMAL in the history of the world, and yet we seem to learn nothing at all from history. Moreover, the Chinese government is easily among the worst of the worst, but it is too politically incorrect to cite that nowadays.
Technical people are some of the kindest and most ethical people around (I’m a former tech myself), but it is that good nature which makes them the most naive.
Re: History shows that trusting a communist nation is a very dangerous thing
Huawei != China
I like the way you talk about not trusting communist nations and then your example is an American Government and American company!
Fail!
The thing about Huawei is that they offer open source drivers to most of their hardware. These are drivers that have been accepted into the Linux kernel and so have passed the usual peer review that goes on there.
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“I like the way you talk about not trusting communist nations and then your example is an American Government and American company!”
Exactly. Everyone knows the US is a military dictatorship with the entertainment industry pulling it’s strings.
I do not trust anything that is coming from this Government.Of course there is no proof.The whole thing was BS from the getgo.
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I think it is possible with technical issue. To find the explanation on this issue government need to deal with security experts.