US Congress Rules Huawei a 'Security Threat' 186
dgharmon writes with the lead from a story in the Brisbane Time: "Chinese telecom company Huawei poses a security threat to the United States and should be barred from US contracts and acquisitions, a yearlong congressional investigation has concluded. A draft of a report by the House Intelligence Committee said Huawei and another Chinese telecom, ZTE, 'cannot be trusted' to be free of influence from Beijing and could be used to undermine U.S. security."
Same applies to US (Score:5, Interesting)
A step forward (Score:5, Interesting)
Now all the other governments of the world should ban Microsoft for being a security threat and things could become far better for most of the people. Even could be considered "a national security threat", played a major role in Stuxnet/Flame/etc targetted attacks, where US agencies could had been involved.
In fact, with that argument most US based software companies could be banned outside, unless by licence (i.e. open source ones) you can get all the source, recompile and deploy it yourself. And that includes embedded software devices
Re:Is the free trade not so fun anymore? (Score:4, Interesting)
Who builds the audit tools?
About Time.... (Score:4, Interesting)
That the US Government officially took notice of Chinese efforts to spy on and undermine the US; wasn't all that fake Cisco equipment that ended up in the department of defense enough of a wake up call.
Re:Don't panic (Score:5, Interesting)
China practically invented the category of Gov't spyware in electronics
Whereas the USA is content with bugging the Chinese premier's aeroplane [airliners.net]...
Perhaps China should have placed Boeing, Dee Howard and Rockwell-Collins on their "security threat" list.
Re:Don't panic (Score:4, Interesting)
I am serious and not serious.
I am serious in implying that we taught the Chinese well.
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BMO
Who was saying that? (Score:1, Interesting)
Who was giving advices to the government about that?? I dont know why but this smells to some protectionism to Apple... maybe they are to worried about one more iphone competitor....
Re:The very fact Huawei has government connections (Score:3, Interesting)
To be fair, the DOJ blocked them from buying sourcefire (the commercial part of Snort) for that very reason in 2006: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6399/1 [linuxplanet.com]
And by security you mean (Score:5, Interesting)
Apple didn't want to tangle with them in a predatory lawsuit that even if they won they'd never see a dime, so they simply lobbied Congress to keep them out.