
If you don't want strange code in there it might be best to not outsource the job. Fucking obvious, no?
China’s dominant telco vendors ZTE Corp and Huawei will take part in US congressional hearings next month regarding investigations of alleged Chinese spy threats to US telecommunications infrastructure. The House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has invited both ZTE chairman Hou Weigui and Huawei …
1) Of what nature would those security threats be exactly?
2) More to the point, of what nature would these laws be?
3) Does anyone in there really understand the economics of having "secure telecom infrastructure"?
4) Does anyone really expect infrastructure with debug facilities and known tap points that might even have gone through a certain knowledge-based economy of the Middle East to be secure?
5) The Athens Affair! Enough said.
"... requesting detailed disclosure about Chinese government relations and their international pricing strategies."
I'm sure the HoR members and all the admin staff involved would never pass the pricing information on to their contacts in US telecom infrastructure companies.
This is, IMHO, more to do with the ability to insert snooping systems into telco kit rather than the reports going the wrong way. The least of us know how to monitor and block such things. The real issue is that the USians have absolutely no control over ZTE and Huawei and no access to their codebase so back-doors and other such technological internal rogerings will be harder to implement.
Sunshine, you're the enemy they're really concerned about, not the Chinese.