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Verizon Dumps Huawei Phones as US Government Pressure Mounts

3 pointsby meri_dianover 7 years ago

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freeflightover 7 years ago
If cybersecurity is really the issue here then there are probably dozens, if not hundreds, of other devices manufactured in China posing quite a bigger risk.<p>Cheap pedometers, drones (including their control apps), straight up USB storage sticks and all the cheap IoT devices like cameras and whatnot are pretty much all manufactured in China.<p>A smartphone might yield the biggest results, it&#x27;s among the devices drawing most of the security scrutiny for exactly that reason.<p>While something like a $5 pedometer isn&#x27;t even considered an attack vector by the vast majority of people, just like downloading an App by the vendor one bought a cheap drone off, but if I wanted to spread something on a large scale I&#x27;d use exactly devices like that (cheap and produced in abundance) instead of using a $400+ smartphone with a rather well-established brand behind it.