Huawei's Chief Security Officer, Andy Purdy, was on Fox Business today trying to explain why Huawei was not a risk to those buying their equipment. Fox was not very kind to him, pointing out that he says he has members of the Chinese Communist Party on the Board, something unavoidable in China, and Huawei "has never had a security incident" in any country. Everyone on Fox's panel laughed at that.
He did say one thing that bothered me, his claim that Telecom providers do the security for networks and nothing Huawei could do would undo that. That is preposterous. If Huawei is making its equipment to benefit the Chinese intelligence services, there is very little a telecom can do to stop that information going back to China. The network traffic has been diverted 3 or 4 times in the last couple of years. That does not even speak to the individual servers sending information back to China.
The US intelligence community knows exactly what Huawei is doing. The New York Times published a series of David Sanger articles on this and it is clear our government knows what they are doing. It is worse than anyone from Huawei could ever overcome. They were better off when they said nothing.
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