US congress wants a word with ZTE, Huawei

"laws to deal with national security threat posed by Chinese kit"

1) Of what nature would those security threats be exactly?

2) More to the point, of what nature would these laws be?

3) Does anyone in there really understand the economics of having "secure telecom infrastructure"?

4) Does anyone really expect infrastructure with debug facilities and known tap points that might even have gone through a certain knowledge-based economy of the Middle East to be secure?

5) The Athens Affair! Enough said.

Not so obvious

This is, IMHO, more to do with the ability to insert snooping systems into telco kit rather than the reports going the wrong way. The least of us know how to monitor and block such things. The real issue is that the USians have absolutely no control over ZTE and Huawei and no access to their codebase so back-doors and other such technological internal rogerings will be harder to implement.

Sunshine, you're the enemy they're really concerned about, not the Chinese.

Huawei

Does Huawei network kit have subversive code and identifiers that allow it to be contacted when connected to an Internet network? Is there DRAC / ILO like features that the Chinese government can use?

Para Noia

It simply pays and pays to be vigilent. I wonder what evil lurks in them there chips. Turnbull? how did good old Oz manage to get a retarded GWB clone running for leadership? He has what might be called a "gift"