Vodafone Denies Bloomberg Report on Security Flaws in Huawei Equipment

'Vodafone denied a Bloomberg report on Tuesday that stated it had
found "backdoors" hidden in Huawei equipment supplied to its Italian
business dating back years, per BBC . From a report:

What they're saying: Vodafone said the "backdoors" in the report were
actually a common industry protocol: "The 'backdoor' that Bloomberg
refers to is Telnet, which is a protocol that is commonly used by many
vendors in the industry for performing diagnostic functions. It would
not have been accessible from the internet. Bloomberg is incorrect in
saying that this 'could have given Huawei unauthorised access to the
carrier's fixed-line network in Italy.' In addition, we have no
evidence of any unauthorised access. This was nothing more than a
failure to remove a diagnostic function after development."'

-- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/04/30/1542202

Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
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