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Isn’t this the same company that’s barred from providing parts to US government systems - because their hardware has been found with advanced roots?

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I think that was ZTE, but may be mistaken

Edit: I went and looked it up, as far as the DoD is concerned, they're both verboten from usage in official DoD capacities it seems, and from being sold on military bases.

https://www.cnet.com/news/pentagon-reportedly-bans-sale-of-h...

The UK security apparatus is nervous about Huawei's involvement in national infrastructure too - to the point that there's a Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) [1].

1: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/huawei-cyber-secu...

Maybe the NSA found something when they hacked into Huawei's servers.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2110960/nsa-hacked-into-serv...

Does anyone have evidence that Huawei's "hardware has been found with advanced roots" ?

> Does anyone have evidence that Huawei's "hardware has been found with advanced roots" ?

Yes, Huawei's products are known to be compromised [1]. Which shouldn't be surprising, given the founder's PLA roots.

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/huawei/

No, it's pure propaganda. There's never been any evidence at all that Huawei has exported a compromised device. But there's been a powerful propaganda effort: the US government spews baseless accusations about Huawei, the US media reports on this without questioning it in the slightest, and US citizens then believe it whole heartedly.

In the end it doesn't really matter. Huawei delivers tremendous value for the money and so they are growing fast in Europe, Asia and Africa. The free market is stronger than even the most devoted propagandists.

Yup.

Also notable you got two quick replies, that both left out the Huawei part of the ban. I'm curious if you also get downvotes. Probably just my imagination tho here.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/2/17310870/pentagon-ban-huaw...

Personally, I’d never be comfortable owning such equipment.

I actually pretty quickly found a link of the Pentagon ban and updated my post to comment as such. So far sitting at +6 vote wise-for whatever it's worth.

No, that was ZTE.

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