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Re:U.S. telecoms are going to start physically removing Huaw... by bobbybabylon on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @07:10AM (#29079534)
I have no idea why I typed ANC instead of AU. But I'm not going to lie, it [0] does read a lot like Western Propaganda. The Yellow Peril trope, the Magical China-Tech (the Supermicro Magic Chips), the early morning uploads to Shanghai (those Chinese are playing the long game!)etc.

Generally, trusting Western media on Africa reporting is never a good idea. But at the end of the day, this, and Snowden's revelations show - if you don't make it, then you don't own it.

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Re:U.S. telecoms are going to start physically removing Huaw... by _djo_ on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @04:21PM (#29099766)
The original news source was African, as I recall. As was the team I’m talking about that investigated the breach.
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Re:U.S. telecoms are going to start physically removing Huaw... by bobbybabylon on Friday November 05, 2021 @04:32AM (#29116738)
Do you have a source? I only recall the Le Monde [0] article. And was the nature of the breach? You have something uploading to Shanghai for 5 years - and nobody noticed?

[0] https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2018/01/26/a-addis-ab...

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Re:U.S. telecoms are going to start physically removing Huaw... by _djo_ on Friday November 05, 2021 @07:16AM (#29117689)
Sorry, afraid not. Will try to find it again.

According to the person I spoke to on the team that responded, and helped set up the new replacement system and network, there had been warnings for years about the adoption of the system and the lack of any real monitoring, but those were ignored because it was considered politically sensitive to double-check on what the Chinese had provided.

It was a new member of staff who did their own experimentation without authorisation who found it and sent it up the chain, to point where it couldn’t be ignored or hidden anymore. Mostly because that made the delegations aware of how terrible security was, whereas before it seems they’d assumed the organisation had that covered.

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