News U.S. House set to vote on $3B funding for the replacement of Chinese telecoms equipment — but swapping out all the Huawei and ZTE equipment will co...

[Admin]

The U.S. will decide this week if it will allocate $3 billion to finally flush Huawei and ZTE from its telecommunications network.

U.S. House set to vote on $3B funding for the replacement of Chinese telecoms equipment — but swapping out all the Huawei and ZTE equipment will co... : Read more

 

[fiyz]

Give me 3 billion and I'll reverse engineer the hardware and rewrite the code that will gives us access to the backdoors and the ability to send erroneous data, or simply remove them.

 

[80251]

@fiyz
Excellent idea but until you do so all that telecom equipment is still compromised and in-use.

 

[williamcll]

Give me 3 billion and I'll reverse engineer the hardware and rewrite the code that will gives us access to the backdoors and the ability to send erroneous data, or simply remove them.

So you are going to pocket 3B and proceed to do nothing. I don't think the House is that easily fooled.

 

[Sippincider]

I don't think the House is that easily fooled.

If this passes, I do hope the vendor contracts have clear and ironclad language.

So we don't end up spending billions to replace Chinese equipment with Chinese equipment... 😵‍💫

 

[DS426]

If this passes, I do hope the vendor contracts have clear and ironclad language.

So we don't end up spending billions to replace Chinese equipment with Chinese equipment... 😵‍💫

I'm thinking the same; some would use the funds to upgrade old equipment but still by Chinese, lol. In fact, I can think of several sneaky ways to get around this unless it's tracked really closely; is Uncle Sam really able and willing to audit every last piece of telco equipment in the U.S. private sector to ensure there's no ZTE or Huawei?

 

[cirdecus]

I hope there's a way to audit the equipment before and after. Either way, it appears the issues around Chinese apps and companies is not a conspiracy theory after all

 

[cirdecus]

They actually don't have to audit. If they enact a way to punish companies that continue to use that equipment, the companies will remove it immediately, likely faster and cheaper than 4b.

 

[Geef]

I hope they setup a system that works with old and new IMs.
Like have all secure IMs have tiny pixel sized dotted line around it and unsecure messages don't.
Make it totally background so it doesn't bother people at all. Just enough to notice it.
Also have a checkbox in settings (Don't allow messages to unsecure IMs.) Just in case.

 

[williamcll]

They actually don't have to audit. If they enact a way to punish companies that continue to use that equipment, the companies will remove it immediately, likely faster and cheaper than 4b.

You could say goodbye to the majority of rural broadband if that's the case.

 

[bill001g]

If this passes, I do hope the vendor contracts have clear and ironclad language.

So we don't end up spending billions to replace Chinese equipment with Chinese equipment... 😵‍💫

Likely it is still all manufactured in china. The article mentions so called American made cisco. Cisco I don't think manufactures in the USA and I don't think they offer cell tower technology. Last time I looked the other companies are EU based. You have ericsson and whatever the cell tower part of nokia is called now days.