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I have this section in the Ottawa keynote called "Profiles in
Courage", and one of the people in it is Huawei Global Security
Officer John Suffolk. Justin Seitz goes into some of the issues
around Huawei's evisceration this week in the blog post here: <a
href="http://cybersecpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/10/embedded-hacking.html">http://cybersecpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/10/embedded-hacking.html</a>
. But at some point soon, I think we'll see a bit of an exodus of
western executive talent from Huawei. Because the report is damning.
Basically it says "No way are we letting Huawei or ZTE have any part
of the market in the States. They operate as a branch of the Chinese
government."<br>
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I think Huawei's <a
href="http://www.huawei.com/ilink/en/download/HW_187368">own
prebuttal</a> confuses the issue with supply chain issues, which
are, as they point out, a moot point when everyone builds their
equipment in China. To quote John Suffolk:<br>
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<p><i><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family:
'FrutigerNextLT'; font-weight: 300">The world has
probably lost more confidential records than there are
people on the planet, and it is easy to get the
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt;
font-family: 'FrutigerNextLT'; font-weight: 300">impression
that there are more breaches of security each year
than there are drops of rain in a storm.<br>
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font-family: 'FrutigerNextLT'; font-weight: 300"></span>Ok,
I admit, I don't think John Suffolk himself wrote that
document. But regardless, his name is on it, and right now,
the US Government has come out saying "Huawei is one big
trojan horse" and he's either a working part of it, or
completely ignorant of what his company is doing. Neither is
what someone is going to want on their <a
href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-suffolk/0/b72/b21?trk=pub-pbmap">Linked-In
profile</a>. :><br>
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-dave<br>
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