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Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

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293 points doener | 2 comments | 14 Jul 20 12:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.407s | source
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BrandoElFollito ◴[14 Jul 20 14:52 UTC] No.23832631[source]▶
All providers had their infamy moment at some point, leaving a backdoor behind.

Maybe for spying, maybe because QA failed.

Huawei is on the US radar but somehow when Cisco left a backdoor on some routers it was "just a mistake".

Every country is guilty of stabbing in the back others (occasionally or all the time), it has been the case for centuries and is not likely to change.

I am French, we do not have our own tech so we get stuff from everyone around - we are probably in the worst spot from that perspective.

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bob1029 ◴[14 Jul 20 21:51 UTC] No.23838424[source]▶
I think this is the most practical realization - That everyone is doing it, and will probably continue doing it until the end of time. If you accept this, then you can quickly constrain the things you should actually worry about to a much smaller list.

The first thing that pops into my mind here is the importance of end-to-end encryption. If you cannot trust anything in the middle (presumably because the internet goes everywhere), perhaps we can at least trust the networks and devices under our immediate control. This is still not perfect because these devices can be compromised at the factory too, but it's still a much better position to be in. I can't make my ISP install core routers that I am comfortable with, but I can make sure that I install network hardware and use computers & phones that I trust on both ends (or convince my counterparties to do the same).

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1. eredengrin ◴[15 Jul 20 00:30 UTC] No.23839829[source]▶
This (and parent) is interesting to read considering the effort France has been putting into transitioning various government services to matrix in order to take advantage of the end to end encryption it offers. Seems they probably agree with a lot of these points!
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2. BrandoElFollito ◴[17 Jul 20 21:07 UTC] No.23875572[source]▶
They transitionned to Citadel, which is a Thales product based off Matrix which made technical decisions which will drive the product off the Matrix dev flow (namely the authentication).