In the UK, there is a nagging doubt about whether the software being lab tested is the same as the software Huawei runs in production. Huawei says it's stuff is safe to use, which is kind of like the witch telling Snow White the apple was OK to eat. Even children know there is something wrong, but they may not see the consequences.
Software is hard enough to comb through without knowing what you might be looking for. Hardware or firmware are even worse. Huawei can say it is safe and it is just like Super Micro saying their hardware is OK to use. They had a third party vendor test it after claims by Bloomberg that they were working on a problem with their supply chain. "No problems here" does not work very well with this kind of penetration.
China is willing to modify hardware and software for its domestic production, but confuses its domestic products with foreign goods shipped out. They have stolen so much software that it is very difficult to tell one modified product from a legitimate vendor's wares. Once stolen it can be modified and resold (or given away to the right people) and it will be next to impossible to tell the difference. If that was all they did, we could live with the piracy, but those modifications are doing more than that.
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