<div dir="ltr"><div><div>In Intelligence business, you trust no one!<br><br>Every country does what is best for it's *own* interests. If putting backdoors in tech equipment is to the US / Chinese interests, they will do it and they have done it.<br>
<br></div>The only you can avoid this, is either you manufacture your own equipment or on the very least assemble equipment from COTS for sensitive areas or you also get very adept at identifying & removing the backdoors.<br>
<br></div>Rgds<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Mark Mwangi via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">So we now distrust the Chinese based on the information offered by the Americans who are running a worldwide spying program tapping just about everyone? Lets not even get started on the back-doors installed in equipment built by the Americans. <br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Matunda Nyanchama via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span>On this subject, it is curious that Safaricom's partner in the project is Chinese Telcom giant Huawei.</span></div><div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent">
<span><br></span></div><div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent"><span>Americans have reservations, apprehensive/suspicious Huwawei technology wrt spying. Here is an excerpt</span></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:transparent"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:15px;line-height:24px">"U.S. House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers </span><a href="http://j.mp/ICrmay" style="color:rgb(40,173,230);text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:15px" target="_blank">somewhat famously said</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:15px;line-height:24px"> last year that Huawei's products "cannot be trusted to be free of foreign state influence and thus pose a security threat to the United States and to our systems." The committee also released a report that accused Huawei of all kinds of bad behavior including bribery, corruption, and
immigration violations. Huawei, of course, </span><a href="http://www.huawei.com/en/about-huawei/newsroom/press-release/hw-194454-hpsci.htm" style="color:rgb(40,173,230);text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:15px" target="_blank">denied the claims</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:15px;line-height:24px">."</span></span></div>
</blockquote><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div> <a href="http://gizmodo.com/accused-of-spying-huawei-ceo-says-company-is-exiting-1475628703" target="_blank">Full article Here.</a></div><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif">
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