http://www.zdnet.com/more-transparency-needed-from-chinese-tech-vendors-7000005617/
Not giving up on North America
Despite the challenges, Huawei said it will not throw in the towel in its efforts to break into the U.S. market.
http://www.zdnet.com/hack-in-the-box-researcher-reveals-ease-of-huawei-router-access-7000005600/
Hack In The Box: researcher reveals ease of Huawei router access
Summary: At Hack In The Box researcher Felix "FX" Lindner has shown how Huawei routers are easy to access with their static passwords and how one machine could give an attacker access to an entire network.
These "special features" include the telco's bootloader protection - where one would set a password to protect against loading new software.
Huawei's bootloader protection apparently has a static password across the board in its routers that can't be disabled - though physical access is key to the attack.
Lindner had a slide with examples of actual current Huawei router passwords, with amusing words such as "supperman."
After Defcon, Lindner told c|net that the Chinese government didn't need backdoors with Huawei's routers acting essentially as a network's man-in-the-middle.
http://www.zdnet.com/u-k-to-probe-huawei-bt-relationship-over-security-concerns-7000005616/
U.K. to probe Huawei, BT relationship over security concerns
Summary: A U.K. parliamentary committee will examine the relationship between Huawei, which was accused of posing a national security threat by the U.S., and British Telecom, the U.K.'s largest telecoms provider.
http://www.zdnet.com/dear-china-cut-out-the-sneaky-spying-shenanigans-7000005623/
Dear China: Cut out the sneaky spying shenanigans
Summary: Look, you're running dangerously close to ticking America off. It's this Huawei thing, believe it or not. You're starting to freak us out with all this sneaking around and spying on our computer gear.
Sure, it means we're losing jobs here in America, and sure that seems like a crappy way to treat people, but if we can get our blingy gadgets for cheap, what the heck? Work those people. Some of us are waiting weeks for the new iPhone 5. Not me -- I'm not even willing to upgrade to iOS 6. I like maps that work. And I wrote an entire book about the issues of American jobs going to countries like China and India. I want jobs here in the U.S. So, I am NOT cool with it.
Anyway, what we don't like is the idea that you might have backdoors in our computers or that you might somehow be building trapdoors into the data centers you want to build in the U.S. We don't like the idea that you could tunnel in across the ocean in the middle of the night and just turn our stuff off.
If we want something that will just shut down on it's own, we have it. It's called the Blue Screen of Death.
Just remember, though -- if you freak us out too much, we'll get all pitch-forky and torches. Don't believe me? Look up Joe McCarthy in Wikipedia.
