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Re:The FBI, CIA and NSA say American citizens shouldn't use ... by gascan on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @06:11PM (#16380431)
If Huawei and ZTE put in back doors, and the CIA/FBI/NSA wants into your phone, then you'd expect they would want you to have a Huawei phone. After all, as oft repeated here, a backdoor is accessible to anybody, no matter who it was put in for.
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Re:The FBI, CIA and NSA say American citizens shouldn't use ... by olympus on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @06:27PM (#16380559)
Not necessarily. If there is a hardware vulnerability specified by the Chinese government, the NSA would not want you to use that phone. They'd rather keep China from having the easy option and then compromise your info another way (that presumably makes it more difficult for China to get your info).
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Re:The FBI, CIA and NSA say American citizens shouldn't use ... by emodendroket on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @10:05PM (#16381617)
Also, finding the backdoor is still some effort.
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