India cites security concerns, blocks Huawei bid to expand their indian ops
Jim Popovitch
jimpop at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 17 22:14:15 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 17:55 -0400, Deepak Jain wrote:
> > I assume that an Indian intelligence agency would
> > be more concerned about things like hidden remote
> > control or data collection services on the systems.
>
>
> Exactly. The Chinese version of Cisco's CALEA code with different access
> methods would be pretty threatening in general. Not saying that they
> have one, did one, or will... but its a security risk even before you
> show intent on the part of Huawei. Maybe the Indian gov't is going to
> request the source to Huawei's code? I remember Germany or Russia
> requesting it of Microsoft for Windows and Microsoft complied.
Requesting the source code and/or having access to it is really
meaningless unless you have the skill and capabilities to compile it
*and* use it. There is no sure way to know that the source code in your
left hand is what was used to compile the binary in your right hand.
-Jim P.
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