Re: "The hardcoded password is a deliberate backdoor."
It only doesn't look good because the article is written as a hatchet job by an Author in America.
The title makes it looks like there are backdoors in Huawei chips. There isn't.
We all know chipsets get used in multiple hardware projects from different companies and they often use the same badly written software one company wrote which often has vulnerabilities. Think IP cameras/DVR's for example.
Totally different to all the American Cisco backdoors and vulnerabilities that we find month after month. hard coded credentials/keys and other backdoors before we we even get to the vulnerabilties.
This has sod all to do with Huawei really but its written to make them look bad. The registers lack of impartiality when it comes to stuff like Huawei is why it is becoming less trusted among peers.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
