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Huawei's half-arsed router patching left kit open to botnets: Chinese giant was warned years ago – then bungled it

Kevin McMurtrie Silver badge

Security risk

Study after study says that there's no official backdoor that the Chinese government could use. There doesn't need to be anything official. All that's needed is a known unpatched exploit.

Unfortunately, banning Huawei doesn't leave us with anything better. All home networking devices, especially security cameras, are garbage. They're a pile of stolen source code and bits of ancient Linux hacked together by the lowest bidder, and then re-branded and re-skinned for sale. The seller has no idea where the firmware came from or who should fix flaws.

If you want secure networks, you need to mandate maintenance of security.

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