https://twitter.com/jordanr1000/status/1049684795448537088
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/new-evide...
Somebody owes a little apology here I think - if Bloomberg story confirms, which I now give a very good chance. Especially the "experts" that were so uniformly wrong. Schneier did recognize he was wrong, but only very matter-of-factly. I think there's more work to be done to figure out why so many people got so huge a story so wrong. I do not call for public shamings or anything, God forbid, but there should be some more work on this done than "ok, I was wrong, never mind", if turns out we had so many people get it wrong. There's a lot of trust placed in "experts" - in fact, disagreeing once with "experts" are now the grounds for a permanent ban from many platforms - and if they are getting things so wrong, we're finding ourselves in a very bad situation, information-wise.
When you say "naysayers" are you including other organizations who tried and failed to corroborate the original story? It's difficult to prove a negative but the Bloomberg story seems bogus to me because not a single other organization was able to find anything of the sort. If the hacking was this widespread, I tend to think someone else would be able to find something.
it is not needed because the quality of Huawei/ZTE and all the Chinese based tech vendors is so shockingly bad that no such backdoors are needed to achieve their objectives. shitty quality gives much better plausible deniability than a well designed backdoor in thoroughly tested code.
The big and only story IMO is that Huawei steals shit from other companies. I had my own work for control-plane on eNodeB stolen by colleagues in our Chinese site that then moved to Huawei. The company should be sanctioned all around the world and their CFO hopefully will rot in a US prison.
I guess someday we'll know for sure.
Notably, one of the criticisms at the time was that Bloomberg didn't name credible sources with first-hand accounts of the events — understandably given the sensitivity. This time, it seems they have been able to do so.
Either way, I'm thrilled to see an outlet do original reporting and stand by their work in the face of universal condemnation. We are better off for having strong dissenting views informing us and expanding the narrative. I'm finding myself increasingly distrustful of the work of journalism outlets, but this (and those gone independent on Substack) gives me hope.