US says it can prove Huawei has backdoor access to mobile-phone networks

Re:US says it can prove Huawei has backdoor access to mobile... by chimeracoder on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @04:55PM (#22313227)

> I found something strange that affects SMS in Canada. You can send the lower case text "secure communication", but it will never be recieved by the recipient.

This reminds me of how, until just a few years ago (as late as 2016), people were wondering why you couldn't tweet the phrase "Get better".

It turned out that you can't tweet any phrase that begins with "Get" because... you guessed it, posting tweets from the web interface still shared backend code with the SMS-based system[0]. So it would interpret "Get foo" as an API request to fetch tweets, not a tweet itself.

[0] Twitter was originally designed to work on dumbphones! You could text your tweet to 40404 and it would post for you, or you could fetch tweets by saying "GET chimeracoder" and it would fetch the latest tweets from user @chimeracoder.

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Re:US says it can prove Huawei has backdoor access to mobile... by pests on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @06:04PM (#22313756)

Your [0] is funny to me because that was how I used and communicated with friend groups back in the early 2000s. Years later when Twitter blew up for real it was strange that facet was forgotten and the culture moved on. That's also the reason for the 140 char length vs the 160 or whatever the SMS limit is. The other characters were reserved for their username.

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Re:US says it can prove Huawei has backdoor access to mobile... by reaperducer on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @05:52PM (#22313679)

You could also go Google searches via SMS.

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