Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to Huawei

Re:Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to H... by skrebbel on Saturday February 01, 2020 @12:07PM (#22211592)

> Whatever provider of 5G hardware the UK picked - it was always going to be open to foreign power abuse.

Wait, you think the Swedish secret service is going to coerce Ericsson into installing backdoors that let them spy in the UK?

I mean, sure, possible, but a bit further fetched than China doing exactly that, no?

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Re:Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to H... by pmlnr on Saturday February 01, 2020 @12:25PM (#22211684)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/fortinet-removes-ssh-and-datab...

Fortinet is American.

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Re:Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to H... by carlmr on Saturday February 01, 2020 @12:25PM (#22211692)

Maybe the Swedes backdoored the Beam VM and are laughing now. Since everybody in Telecom uses it.

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Re:Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to H... by 9q9 on Saturday February 01, 2020 @01:22PM (#22212147)

For what it's worth, backdoors have been discovered in Ericsson switches, see [1], it's fascinating reading. It's unclear who put them there. Wikipedia [2] alleges that the US embassy in Athens was behind the telephone intercepts. Naturally, Wikipedia is n o t a reliable source in such matters.

I used to work in telecoms myself about 20 years ago, and at least at the time, much of infrastructure was insanely insecure -- I could have backdoored much of the internet's backbone as a lone programmer had I wanted to: our software was used by most big telcos. Not once was our code audited (at least openly). I very much hope that security is taken more seriously now.

[1] V. Prevelakis, D. Spinellis, The Athens Affair. https://web.archive.org/web/20070704193410/http://www.spectr... The pdf is also available through Spinellis' Google Scholar page.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2...

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Re:Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to H... by jlgaddis on Saturday February 01, 2020 @04:29PM (#22213376)

> I very much hope that security is taken more seriously now.

I've got some bad news ...

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Re:Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to H... by skrebbel on Saturday February 01, 2020 @12:28PM (#22211713)

You mean like how Oracle backdoored the JVM and how Israel backdoored PHP? Just checking, this is what you mean, right?

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Re:Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to H... by catalogia on Saturday February 01, 2020 @04:15PM (#22213289)

The tone of your comment seems a bit confrontational, but I'm not sure why. Can you explain it for somebody lacking context?

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Re:Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to H... by jlgaddis on Saturday February 01, 2020 @05:31PM (#22213687)

I'm gonna guess that skrebbel is a Swede.

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Re:Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to H... by Brave-Steak on Saturday February 01, 2020 @01:01PM (#22211986)

Even if the Swedes did do it, I'd prefer them far more than the authoritarian CCP.

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