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US says it can prove Huawei has backdoor access to mobile-phone networks

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Re: US says it can prove Huawei has backdoor access to mobile-phone networks

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But can they prove it without revealing their own backdoors?

Or explaining why they allow those backdoors exist in the first place?

Pretty sure it's legally required by the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act[1] from 1994. I'm not 100% sure, however.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...

Re: US says it can prove Huawei has backdoor access to mobile-phone networks

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post #3

But can they prove it without revealing their own backdoors?

Or explaining why they allow those backdoors exist in the first place?

This is one of those "if X has access, so does everyone else" and rule makers still don't seem to grasp it.

Re: US says it can prove Huawei has backdoor access to mobile-phone networks

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A question to Europeans reading this-

If you had to assume that U.S. 5G equipment manufacturers would provide backdoors to U.S. officials, and Chinese 5G equipment manufacturers would provide backdoors to Chinese officials, and Europeans had to use one or the other, which would you choose?

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