Australia bans Huawei from 5G mobile network project, citing national security
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https://www.dw.com/en/australia-bans-chinas-huawei-from-mobile-network-project/a-45194214
Australia's move to sideline China's Huawei while building the country's 5G mobile network followed advice from security agencies and signaled a hardening of Canberra's stance
toward its biggest trading partner as relations had soured over Australia's allegations of Chinese meddling in domestic policies.
It also brought Australia in line with the United States, which had restricted Huawei's and ZTE's access to its lucrative market for similar reasons. The government in Canberra said in a
statement Thursday that national security regulations, typically applied to telecom carriers, would now be extended to equipment suppliers.
Firms, "who are likely to be subject to extrajudicial directions from a foreign government," would leave the nation's network vulnerable to unauthorized access or interference, the
statement added.
Huawei's Australian arm denied it was controlled by Beijing and called the move "unfair" and "an extremely disappointing result for consumers."
Cybersecurity expert John Watters from FireEye Inc. said "Australia basically made a decision to spend more money to have control over its national communication system, because
it's up against a competitor that will sacrifice near-term margin for long-term intelligence advantage." Australia had previously banned Huawei from providing equipment for its fiber-
optic network and moved to block it from laying submarine cables in the Pacific.
Is it the company they have issue with or the country?
Yes
Probably both.
Both. I wouldn't trust a Chinese company being involved in my country's infrastructure considering the constant ongoing attempts by Chinese companies working on their own or on behalf of the government to commit industrial espionage and steal/spy on foreign nations/businesses.
Can we do this everywhere else too please?
Finally we put common sense before money.
China's well known for interfering with anything for its own benefit and if you look at these major Chinese phone companies the CEO's tend to be ex military generals ect, it's crazy.
Yeah, also these big Western tech companies need stop doing business with China as well, its why there is so many cheap Chinese smartphones on the market now, all the tech is stolen for no costs
You know sometimes I wonder if it was a good idea to set up TouchID and FaceID on my Huawei phone.
Haven't Chinese phones and such gotten pretty good in the past few years or so, though? I think the first two truly "bezel-less" phones (a.k.a. no notch) on the market are Chinese...
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/198768/0876a2e3-c2fb-466d-a4a3-a5a542cc7401/78f0200c9cccdd2158431c0d6b7a517a.jpg
There's no difference to these two concerns, and there hasn't been in a very very long time. Separation of church and state exist for a reason, and separation of commerce and state exist for equally important reasons, and China has been fucking those principles rawdog for long enough that they are literally foriegn concepts now, and no one but the top benefits from it.
When they say 'infrastructure', do they mean routers (etc) or end-user products?
I just bought a Huawei Nova 3i smartphone and I'm trying to figure out how boned I am
Its very likely the intelligence agencies have knowledge of backdoors that they won't share.
What you mean stolen?
Then root the thing and blow it out with vanilla Android? Unless they're bothering to put their spyware on some isolated ROM chip that the OS can't see, I mean.
I dunno, I never really worried about being spied on.
Huawei stole a lot of Cisco's code when they were first starting out.
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