huawei

Sat Jun 15 12:10:29 UTC 2013

Jimmy,

This I agree with and in fact I said in earlier parts of this conversation
that the existence of a kill switch and/or backdoor in Huawei gear wouldn't
surprise me at all.  Of course I'd say the same thing about pretty much all
the gear manufacturers and its really just a question of who has or can get
access to that information for a given manufacturer.

Scott Helms
Vice President of Technology
ZCorum
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On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/15/13, Scott Helms <khelms at zcorum.com> wrote:
> >  They're terrible places for gathering non-targeted information because
> the
> > amount of data flowing through them means that that the likelihood of any
> > give packet having any value is very very low.  If the goal includes
> [snip]
>
> The probability of a  low-likelihood or infrequent event approaches
> 100%,  given sufficient time, persistence, and creativity.    Even if
> 1%  or less of packets passing through are interesting;  that happens
> to be more than enough  to provide a snoop gains, and cause damage to
> a legitimate user.
>
> The potential existence of 'better' options;  doesn't mean backdooring
> of routers wouldn't be included in part of a nation state or other bad
> actor's backdooring program.
>
> --
> -JH
>