I don't get all the controversy over Huawei code having backdoors. Has anyone *looked*? I have. It's a humongous pile of buggy NIH. It doesn't *need* backdoors. It's guaranteed to have exploitable bugs. The Chinese govt just needs the source to find them faster than adversaries.
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To be fair pretty much *every* company sucks at firmware with a few exceptions, but what I saw in the Huawei stuff just gave me a terrible feeling all around. Way, way too overengineered while still having a feeling of hacked together. Bad combo.
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All networking product is not bug-free. Speaking of backdoor, it's silly to impl hardcoded ones even for debug. bugydoor has more deniability. Btw, I've tried to convince them use
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Heh, I had Huawei switches with a MAC address table that didn't store the 48 bits of a MAC. It hashed them into 16 bits so when you had collisions your unicast packets would go out two or more ports. Oh the joy. I used to think that Huawei HW was fine. Now I'm somewhat suspicious
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We need something like Android for network hardware so that OEMs can compete away the margins on the hardware while amortizing the cost of secure, reliable and up-to-date software across the global user base.
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Oneplus has
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