Former Pentagon analyst: China has backdoors to 80% of telecoms

[Dermot7]

The Chinese government reportedly has "pervasive access" to some 80 percent of the world's communications, thanks to backdoors it has ordered to be installed in devices made by Huawei and ZTE Corporation. That's according to sources cited by Michael Maloof, a former senior security policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, who now writes for WND:

http://www.zdnet.com/former-pentagon...ms-7000000908/

[EncryptedBytes]

This article reeks of FUD, I did like this tidbit:

As a consequence, sources say that any information traversing "any" Huawei equipped network isn't safe unless it has military encryption. One source warned, "even then, there is no doubt that the Chinese are working very hard to decipher anything encrypted that they intercept."

China and "APTs" are the trending boogie-men right now.

I don't believe this.

[noone_particular]

That puts them about 20% behind the NSA. Personally, I'm less concerned with a chinese back door than a domestic one.

[Noob]

I LOL'ed.
Smells like BS to me.
Now that's misinformation at it's highest levels. *Tinfoil Hat*

[jackdiaz]

This mirror's Richard Clarke's concerns of China's influence over the production of our popular technology (Fast company reported while only 3% of our tech is produced by China, its almost all of the stuff everyone uses day to day). I can see how it might be a possibility, but i doubt the western govs, let alone western businesses, wouldn't take measures.

[funkydude]

True or not, but there have been articles in the past about Chinese software & hardware having backdoors. Most recently being the ZTE Android phones.

I generally avoid Chinese software & hardware altogether, just my opinion.

[Hungry Man]

IDK why anyone wouldn't believe this. Sounds entirely likely.

[noone_particular]

Backdoored hardware, running spyware operating systems over surveillance friendly networks. Nothing new here.

Originally Posted by Hungry Man

IDK why anyone wouldn't believe this. Sounds entirely likely.

Because "likely" isn't enough.

[Hungry Man]

My point is that it isn't unbelievable. If someone from the pentagon said so I wouldn't believe it as fact but I wouldn't have serious doubts about it either.