Lithuania urges people to throw away Chinese phones

[Ice Tea]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58652249

Consumers should throw away their Chinese phones and avoid buying new ones, Lithuania’s Defence Ministry has warned.

A report by its National Cyber Security Centre tested 5G mobiles from Chinese manufacturers.

It claimed that one Xiaomi phone had built-in censorship tools while another Huawei model had security flaws.

Not often you see News from Lithuania.

 

[grudas]

Interesting and not unexpected. But wonder how much of that is driven by politics.. all these researchers always come up with something when the time is right. Not that I support China just odd timing

 

[KompuKare]

I look at it differently:

Given the choice of a backdoor for PLA's espionage, the KGB (whatever they call themselves now), or the NSA, which one would I choose to be spied on by?

Well, the one which has the least reach in this country. Which actually happens to be the PLA.

Obviously if you are a Chinese dissent that calculation is totally different and your lesser evil would be the NSA.

What I always found suspect in the whole Huawei spying thing is that was mostly driven by commercial interests plus lack of backdoors for "our guys".

Guess it takes poachers to know a poacher!

 

[neocon]

I look at it differently:

Given the choice of a backdoor for PLA's espionage, the KGB (whatever they call themselves now), or the NSA, which one would I choose to be spied on by?

Well, the one which has the least reach in this country. Which actually happens to be the PLA.

Obviously if you are a Chinese dissent that calculation is totally different and your lesser evil would be the NSA.

What I always found suspect in the whole Huawei spying thing is that was mostly driven by commercial interests plus lack of backdoors for "our guys".

Guess it takes poachers to know a poacher!

For average person I guess it doesn't matter, but maybe politicians and the like shouldn't be using Chinese phones.

 

[nine_tails]

bah.. what about televisions and other electronics?