huawei

Thu Jun 13 16:56:55 UTC 2013

That was exact statement from the DoD, prior to them finding out they had a bunch of Chinese fake gear with real back doors built in. I can appreciate a difference of opinion, but anyone would installs the PRC's cellular solution is a fool. Never mind security, they just simply don't work. There are several of those Chinese network equipment manufacturers.. Tegra comes to mind too..

As a footnote, the Iranian government would have thought you were bat shit crazy if you told them there was a secret set of programs running on their centrifuge SCADA network, which was completely true. You don't need to relay data out to cause harm or watch over something, you simply have to visit more. ;)

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-------- Original message --------
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick at ianai.net>
Date: 06/13/2013 9:24 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: NANOG list <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: huawei

On Jun 13, 2013, at 12:18 , Nick Khamis <symack at gmail.com> wrote:

> A local clec here in Canada just teamed up with this company to
> provide cell service to the north:
>
> http://cwta.ca/blog/2012/09/24/ice-wireless-iristel-and-huawei-partner-for-3g-wireless-network-in-northern-canada/
>
> Scary....

Why?

Do you think Huawei has a magic ability to transmit data without you noticing?

If you don't want to use Hauwei because they stole code or did other nasty things, I'm right there with you. If you believe a router can somehow magically duplicate info and transport it back to China (ignoring CT/CU's inability to have congestion free links), I think you are confused.

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TTFN,
patrick