Mmm. As an Australian, the main reason I'd be happy with using US telecom equipment would be the fact that Australia makes up 1/5th of the 5 eyes.
I'd expect our security people to have a very good idea of what backdoors are or are not present.
I'd expect our security people to have a very good idea of what backdoors are or are not present.
People actually think like this now? We just collectively rolled over and accepted mass surveillance?
I get choosing the least evil but this is a defense only as much as burning dows a building and saying "at least this little piece survived" is a defense.
(Not to say that I personally am ok with any of it, but from a societal perspective it makes a little sense.)
Luckily I'm an exceedingly boring person, so it won't happen either way, but it's still an interesting, and valid, point of view (pending ones travel plans).
If Huawei put a backdoor in the 5 eyes are incentivised to announce it and have it closed. If the 5 eyes want a backdoor in they're incentivised to not involve Huawei or their kit lest it be used against them.
A bit like sharing cake with my brother as a kid - one cuts, the other picks.
What I like is that the NSA actually hacked Huawei, and yet it's the Chinese company that we're fearful of being hacked by.