[Cryptography] UK "HCSEC" UK-cleared engineers try to prove Huawei gear secure

[james hughes]

On Feb 20, 2020, at 10:46 AM, Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:
> […] it seems to me that the clampdown on interacting with Huawei is going to have the opposite effect to that intended - i.e. move them even further away from employing secure practices and up-to-date packages…

I see the “clampdown on interacting with Huawei” as motivating them to demonstrate their equipment are not "capable of being exploited".

This is exactly what Bill Gates did to Microsoft in 2002 when he declared that Microsoft needed to deliver "Trustworthy Computing". https://www.cnet.com/news/gates-memo-we-can-and-must-do-better/