Comments on: The EU Ignores Trump’s Unsubstantiated Demand to Ban Huawei https://www.bobcesca.com/the-eu-also-wont-ban-huawei/ We Cover The World Wed, 29 Jan 2020 20:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 By: muselet https://www.bobcesca.com/the-eu-also-wont-ban-huawei/#comment-108645 Wed, 29 Jan 2020 20:59:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=148246#comment-108645 As I’ve noted before, the rumor mill has long claimed Huawei builds a backdoor into its equipment for the benefit of the Chinese government. If true, everything passing through anything made by Huawei might as well be in plaintext.

For what it’s worth, the company denies any such backdoor exists and that it wouldn’t install one even if ordered to do so.

I don’t blame the UK, the EU and Canada (Just as a sidebar: the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is being a bit unrealistic about 5G equipment. Anything more sophisticated than two cans and a piece of string can be a “door to possible espionage.”) for ignoring the over-the-top concerns of the Trump administration, but I sincerely hope they did their due diligence and didn’t just do the opposite of what the US was insisting.

I really hate having to hope things like that.

–alopecia

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