Comments on: Will security issues hamper ZTE’s phone efforts in the U.S.? http://gigaom.com/2012/05/18/will-security-issues-hamper-ztes-phone-efforts-in-the-u-s/ Wed, 22 May 2013 21:24:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/2012/05/18/will-security-issues-hamper-ztes-phone-efforts-in-the-u-s/#comment-842561 Sun, 20 May 2012 19:08:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=523199#comment-842561 Very true, but I’d like to think that no backdoor hacks are able to get added via the iOS flashing process. I doubt Apple gives the iOS source to a manufacturer, for example. Its more likely that is simply provides the ROM install.

]]> By: Think http://gigaom.com/2012/05/18/will-security-issues-hamper-ztes-phone-efforts-in-the-u-s/#comment-842544 Sun, 20 May 2012 16:05:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=523199#comment-842544 What phones aren’t made in some fashion in China. My iPhone is “assembled” in China.

]]> By: Steve K http://gigaom.com/2012/05/18/will-security-issues-hamper-ztes-phone-efforts-in-the-u-s/#comment-842255 Fri, 18 May 2012 21:15:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=523199#comment-842255 “ZTE is one of the largest network hardware manufacturers in the world” and has been caught putting a backdoor in their phones? And it all comes out of a place where we have no idea what is going on? And anybody wonders if there are security risks?

A few years ago, a Silicon Valley consortium hired a couple of Chinese administrators from their customs department to serve as consultants on China’s implementation of restriction of hazardous substances regulations. These people had previously administrated these regulations. But when you tried to pin them down, they admitted that the substances, limits and enforcement was entirely capricious and dependent on political maneuvering.

Now, everyone is going for commodity server hardware using design elements pilfered from US companies dumb enough to send grunt design work over there. And people act surprised that this hardware has hooks and backdoors to skim intelligence from? Who needs sexy Russian spies when you can just route all communications though a box you built?

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