Henkilökohtaisesti minua häiritsee huomattavasti Huawei-vakoilukeississä se, että Kiinan tasavalta ajaa agressiivisesti Huawein etuja vakoilukeskusteluissa. Vertailun vuoksi jos Nokialla tai Ericssonilla olisi takaporttiepäilyjä, ei meidän suurlähettiläät tai politikot alkaisi puolustelemaan (korkeintaan tuomitsemaan poliittisten irtopestäiden keräämiseksi).
Beijing’s ambassador to London, Liu Xiaoming, urged the UK to make the “right decision independently” over the suppliers for the new network.
China urges UK to ignore pressure over Huawei 5G decision | Huawei | The Guardian
China’s ambassador to Canada warned the Canadian government on Thursday to stop recruiting international support in its feud with China and threatened retaliation if Ottawa bans Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei for security reasons. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2182612/chinese-ambassador-lu-shaye-warns-back-stabbing-canada-stop
“Any country has the right to protect the information security of its own, but that gives it no reason to impede or even strangle the lawful and legitimate operations of an enterprise,” said the Chinese embassy’s statement, which denied Beijing could force companies to build such “back-doors” into their products.
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Tästä viimeisemmästä back-door kommentista aasinsilta tämänpäiväiseen, erittäin huolestuttavaan uutiseen Vodafonelta, jolta paljastunut historiaa Huawein takaporteista.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/vodafone-found-hidden-backdoors-in-huawei-equipment
Lyhytversio:
“What is of most concern here is that actions of Huawei in agreeing to remove the code, then trying to hide it, and now refusing to remove it as they need it to remain for ‘quality’ purposes,” Littlefair wrote.
Pitkäversio:
Vodafone managers had concerns with the security of the routers almost right away. They were the topic of an internal presentation from October 2009 that pointed to 26 open bugs in the routers, six identified as “critical” and nine as “major.” Vodafone said in the report that Huawei would need to remove or inhibit a so-called telnet service—a protocol used to control devices remotely—that the carrier said was a backdoor giving Huawei access to sensitive data.
In January 2011, Vodafone Italy started a deeper probe of the routers, according to an April report from the year. Security testing by an independent contractor identified the telnet backdoor as the greatest concern, posing risks including giving unauthorized access to Vodafone’s broader Wide Area Network (WAN is a network that spans a large footprint). Vodafone noted that it’s an industry practice by some router manufacturers to use a telnet service to manage their equipment, but the company said it didn’t allow this.
The document chronicles a two-month period during which Vodafone’s Italian unit discovered the telnet service, demanded its removal by Huawei and received assurances from the supplier that the problem was fixed. After further testing, Vodafone found that the telnet service could still be launched.
Vodafone said Huawei then refused to fully remove the backdoor, citing a manufacturing requirement. Huawei said it needed the telnet service to configure device information and conduct tests including on wifi, and offered to disable the service after taking those steps, according to the document.
Huawei’s ability to continue winning contracts from London-based Vodafone, despite the carrier’s security concerns, underscores the challenge facing the U.S. as it tries to hinder the world’s top telecom equipment vendor and No. 2 supplier of smartphones. Huawei is vying against a stable of Western companies including Nokia Oyj and Ericsson AB to roll out fifth-generation, or 5G, wireless networks.
Jos tästä nyt jonkin johtopäätöksen voi vetää, niin on selvää, että ilman valtion ja lainsäätäjän puuttumista asiaan, niin operaattorin vaakakupissa € > turvallisuus.
Toinen asia, joka voi vaakakuppia heilauttaa on se, jos kuluttajat reagoivat tämäntyyppisiin uutisiin ja alkavat vaihtamaan operaattoria. En kuitenaan usko, että peruskuluttaja hirveästi päätään turvallisuuspolitiikalla vaivaa. Itse vaihdoin Elisasta pois osittain Huawei-yhteistyöuutisten takia.