Re: Joke -- Cisco, Jupiter are OK -- Huawei and ZTE maybe not so much -- Laugh, laugh, laugh.....
This is one thing I've always wondered about - surely I'd have thought that it would be a standard setting on all telecoms equipment to encrypt any traffic being carried on its network? Essentially this would then mean the equipment is secure as long as the encryption standard is secure.
Obviously this wouldn't stop any form of hardware based intervention - so for example theoritically, Chinese companies could put some form of kill switch in their equipment for use in war time etc - in the same way the US apparently puts kill switches in any military equipment sold overseas ... or the obscurification of GPS accuracy in times of war etc - but in terms of listening in on traffic this would prevent that from happening.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
