[83520] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: India cites security concerns, blocks Huawei bid to expand their
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Wed Aug 17 17:56:25 2005
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:55:34 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
To: Alexander Bochmann <ab@lists.gxis.de>
Cc: "'NANOG'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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> I assume that an Indian intelligence agency would
> be more concerned about things like hidden remote
> control or data collection services on the systems.
Exactly. The Chinese version of Cisco's CALEA code with different access
methods would be pretty threatening in general. Not saying that they
have one, did one, or will... but its a security risk even before you
show intent on the part of Huawei. Maybe the Indian gov't is going to
request the source to Huawei's code? I remember Germany or Russia
requesting it of Microsoft for Windows and Microsoft complied.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
