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Huawei promised to fix these horrible security issues after a code review in 2012 and the establishment of the HCSEC oversight board in 2014, yet HCSEC found Huawei had not fixed the issues found in 2012 in their 2018 report, at which point Huawei promised to spend $2 billion to improve code security.

IIRC the 2019 report from HCSEC outlined the same bugs had yet to be fixed. I think Huawei doesn't want to fix bugs in products they aren't currently selling (in part based on Nortel code that has been patched over the last decade with new features), thus the lies and lack of investment.

More reading: https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/uk-says-huawei-equip... and https://aragonresearch.com/cyber-war-flashback-remembering-t...




A less generous interpretation would be that Huawei cannot fix the code since they were the not the ones who wrote it on the first place.




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