Batman:

 

elpenguino:

 

Not being very suspicious of Huawei motives is to be very naive.

 

 

I'm very suspicious of Turkey and USA. When a guy called Jamal disappeared, they both knew exactly what happened behind closed doors ... 

 

There are several reasons why technology is more trustworthy from/with the USA than China.

The difference is that we have a deal (5eyes) with the USA where we have access to their intelligence, so there is a high degree of transparency in their risk to us and the risk is further offset by the benefit of their intelligence to us. We have no such agreement with China, so we have risk with zero benefit and zero transparency.

At a secondary level, we also have defence agreements with many 5eyes countries, so their security interests are tied to ours, where as we have no such agreement/reassurance with China. If China had an alliance with NZ, we would have no reason to suspect harm from them.

In the Jamal case, it is reassuring to see our 5eyes partners using intelligence and spying ethically to protect other (Saudi) journalists, as journalists are important to democracy.

Backdoors are frequently discovered only after they have been utilised (think about all the trigger for many Windows security patches).