Huawei’s ability to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile users is a wake-up call for the telecoms industry

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Dutch mobile operator KPN is said to have essentially granted Huawei 'administrator rights' to its mobile network by outsourcing work to the Chinese firm.

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At the same time, equipment suppliers like Huawei are trying to move away from merely selling equipment and towards providing a, including installation, maintenance and support. This helps them create recurring revenue in an industry that has generally been dominated by large five-year or ten-year purchasing cycles.

But as these vendors add services to their repertoire, they gain wider access to the mobile networks they work with. This could includeof telecoms networks, which are often designed to work in trusted, secure environments. In the scenario where a vendor like Huawei also provides a managed service, they find themselves sitting in a uniquely privileged position, with inside knowledge of their own equipment, and with direct access to trusted management interfaces.

This creates the high-tech equivalent of putting all your eggs in one basket. It’s akin to giving the combinations of the bank vault to the same security guard in charge of the CCTV camera footage. It’s difficult to reliably monitor operations carried out by the vendor without relying on that vendor’s own software., it’s very difficult to know whether that vendor didn’t do anything untoward. This is the situation KPN apparently found themselves in with Huawei back in 2010.

 

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You can’t trust the chicoms

Its ok if some other country does it, just so it isnt China.

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notoDito as much as I hate the duopoly, I’d stick with enjoyGLOBE and LiveSmart no matter how much they suck than to be spied on.

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