January 2, 2014 at 16:45“And these people forbid us to poke our nose”: Huawei and the NSA
The NSA scandal never tires of giving us discoveries of varying degrees of lousiness. So the German Der Spiegel [ in English ] unearthed the details of the “Tailored operations unit” within the NSA and the tools available to them, which allows you to penetrate various networks and equipment.
The 50-page document, which was prepared by the Germans, is in itself extremely interesting: reporters maliciously called it the " Otto directory for spies." There are goodies for every budget - from modified VGA cables for thirty bucks that allow you to "peep" the image on the monitor from afar, to a "charged" BS cellular service under the code name "CANDYGRAM" for $ 40 thousand. However, there is one nice detail ,
The list of equipment vendors with backdoors, separated by commas, lists Cisco, Juniper and ... Huawei: The
irony is that the US government agencies put a lot of effort into convincing their own Congress that the network equipment of Chinese companies such as ZTE and Huawei could be a threat to national security due to possible "bookmarks." Suspicions were so strong that Huawei abandoned the US market altogether, limiting itself to selling phones and USB whistles.
And now it turns out that the NSA themselves did what the Chinese reproached by introducing backdoors into the Huawei firewalls:
In fairness, it should be noted that Huawei and ZTE put sticks in the wheels in the United States not only because of the fear of “bookmarks”, but because of the unwillingness to allow the Chinese to data centers and critical sites of American mobile operators and Internet companies. At large tenders, not only the supply of “iron” is played out, but also its introduction by forces of a large landing from the vendor’s employees. You can’t put a controller over each business traveler, and by definition you have to introduce a vendor with a bunch of confidential information.
But this does not make the story less ironic, does it?
The 50-page document, which was prepared by the Germans, is in itself extremely interesting: reporters maliciously called it the " Otto directory for spies." There are goodies for every budget - from modified VGA cables for thirty bucks that allow you to "peep" the image on the monitor from afar, to a "charged" BS cellular service under the code name "CANDYGRAM" for $ 40 thousand. However, there is one nice detail ,
The list of equipment vendors with backdoors, separated by commas, lists Cisco, Juniper and ... Huawei: The
irony is that the US government agencies put a lot of effort into convincing their own Congress that the network equipment of Chinese companies such as ZTE and Huawei could be a threat to national security due to possible "bookmarks." Suspicions were so strong that Huawei abandoned the US market altogether, limiting itself to selling phones and USB whistles.
And now it turns out that the NSA themselves did what the Chinese reproached by introducing backdoors into the Huawei firewalls:
In fairness, it should be noted that Huawei and ZTE put sticks in the wheels in the United States not only because of the fear of “bookmarks”, but because of the unwillingness to allow the Chinese to data centers and critical sites of American mobile operators and Internet companies. At large tenders, not only the supply of “iron” is played out, but also its introduction by forces of a large landing from the vendor’s employees. You can’t put a controller over each business traveler, and by definition you have to introduce a vendor with a bunch of confidential information.
But this does not make the story less ironic, does it?