Huawei Using NSA Scandal To Turn Tables On Accusations of Spying 183
Nerval's Lobster writes "Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecom giant banned from selling to U.S. government agencies due to its alleged ties to Chinese intelligence services, is trying to turn the tables on its accusers by offering itself as a safe haven for customers concerned that the NSA has compromised their own IT vendors. 'We have never been asked to provide access to our technology, or provide any data or information on any citizen or organization to any Government, or their agencies,' Huawei Deputy Chairman Ken Hu said in the introduction to a 52-page white paper on cybersecurity published Oct. 18. Huawei was banned from selling to U.S. government entities and faced barriers to civilian sales following a 2012 report from the U.S. House of Representatives that concluded Huawei's management had not been forthcoming enough to convince committee members to disregard charges it had given Chinese intelligence services backdoors into its secure systems and allowed Chinese intelligence agents to pose as Huawei employees. But the company promises to create test centers where governments and customers can test its products and inspect its services as part of an 'open, transparent and sincere' approach to questions about its alleged ties, according to a statement in the white paper from Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei. Can Huawei actually gain more customers by playing off the Snowden scandal?"
Re:drivers (Score:5, Funny)
Dear gbjbaanb,
We will gladly do so... as soon as you also ask the following competitors to do the same: :
- Juniper Networks
- Cisco
- 3Com
- Teledata Networks
- Netgear
- Alcatel-Lucent
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After all, the back doors we have in our switches are the same back doors we inherited from their code when we stole it a few years ago.
Re:It's not mutually exclusive. (Score:5, Funny)
That's an extremely paranoid, borderline tin foil hat, conspiracy theory. Given recent information that has helped people determine the veracity of such wild eyed ideas, there's a very good chance you're right.
Re:maybe Huawei was banned because (Score:4, Funny)
Perhaps, but I still count on the saying: "A thief thinks every man steals".
The US assumes there are backdoors in Chinese equipment because they themselves put backdoors in all American equipment.