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Huawei wants to enter US market

-> spying suspicions

Huawei makes source code open

-> all they want is free bug fixing

Is that really fair?

Note: Have you even read the article? They say they would make the source code available for official governmental institutions to analyze it if they wanted, they don't say anything about making it completely open-source!

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Making the source code open doesn't help unless you can flash the devices, since you have no guarantee the source code is what's on the devices.

Plus, if the backdoors are in hardware (say the hardware AES implementation has a small key scheduling "bug" or something) , not software, source code wouldn't help.

Exactly. And any update feature, which is typically built into most networking products, could enable a backdoor to be installed at a later date. Could be clean now, but doesn't mean always!

Neither did I say so: if the US tells them 'this does not comply for this & that' there they go: free counseling....

Yes I do not trust them. A.T.a.l.l.

Have you even taken a look at the crappy code they ship their routers with? Take your time

http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2012kul/materi...

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