[83523] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: India cites security concerns, blocks Huawei bid to expand
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Wed Aug 17 18:19:13 2005
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
To: deepak@ai.net
Cc: Alexander Bochmann <ab@lists.gxis.de>, 'NANOG' <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4303B256.6020503@ai.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:14:15 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 17:55 -0400, Deepak Jain wrote:
> > 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.
Requesting the source code and/or having access to it is really
meaningless unless you have the skill and capabilities to compile it
*and* use it. There is no sure way to know that the source code in your
left hand is what was used to compile the binary in your right hand.
-Jim P.
