Cyberdefence and Huawei

[gpe]

... I have been behind on reading and noticed an article in the Economist April 2nd on CyberWarfare: "A Chinese ghost in the machine?"

... last paragraph of article

Meanwhile, the furore is fuelling suspicion of Chinese motives. In Britain Huawei, a Chinese firm, is one of the main contractors in a £10 billion ($14 billion) effort to upgrade the telephone system. Huawei’s boss, Ren
Zhengfei, is a former Chinese army officer, and Britain’s spies fret that network equipment that will be used by firms, households and government departments could come with hidden “backdoors” that would let Chinese snoopers evade easy detection. In 2008 America’s Congress blocked Huawei’s plans to buy 3com, another computer-equipment firm, citing similar security worries. Cyberwarfare is a business with a future.

makes you wonder

 

[cyberarmy]

Yes, there were claims previous about CISCO (world biggest network hardware supplier) and microsoft had backdoors on all their hardwares/softwares, to collect intelligence and if needed, paralyse enermie's network during warfare.