@sheytoon wrote:
@Anonymous what exactly do people need to trust? It's radio equipment, not core. What can Huawei or the Chinese government actually do?
@sheytoon
Not a clue. It's all suspicion and innuendo. I have no clue how deep any installed equipment goes. If it's just dumb radio transmission then maybe that's fine. Or is it? Or what is installed somewhere else intercepting those radio signals...a la Stingray. If there's some semblance of a microchip with software in it somewhere then the possibilities are endless. I don't know how the infrastructure of a cell system works so I don't know at what point nefarious deeds can be performed.
Of course we have our own cops and spy agencies watching over us too but at least they're internal. Then our allies. That's certainly problematic to me. But to have a not so friendly authoritarian government with its hands in all of its internal affairs ... leaves one to wonder.
Then there are the two camps of privacy. 1. what do I have to hide? 2. I have everything to hide.
A mobile transmitting device carried around by _everybody_ has its whole host of possibilities. But we trade that for the convenience of an always-with-us communication device and mobile connection to the internet.
All we can do is hope and trust that what we do and share on the device is not being abused by unwanted actors.
blah blah blah paranoid conspiracy theories everywhere...what'r'y'gonna do 🙂
