Re: Huawei on Mount Everest

2020-05-02 Thread Mark Rousell
On 01/05/2020 19:13, Eric Tykwinski wrote: > how the hell are they going to get power up there for dependability. > Solar power sure is a great option, but I was under the assumption > that repairs will be hell to put it bluntly. > Batteries in that cold of a climate is also a regular trip. which

RE: Huawei on Mount Everest

2020-05-02 Thread Keith Medcalf
d >Cc: John Levine ; nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: Huawei on Mount Everest > >Honestly, being an amateur rock climber, I’m in the same boat, but how >the hell are they going to get power up there for dependability. >Solar power sure is a great option, but I was under the assumption tha

Re: Huawei on Mount Everest

2020-05-01 Thread Wayne Bouchard
You're all missing the point... We can now watch cat videos from the top of Everst. C'mon! Shouldn't that rank among the greatest of man's achievements? On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 01:57:42PM -0400, John Levine wrote: > In article > you > write: > >-=-=-=-=-=- > > >

Re: Huawei on Mount Everest

2020-05-01 Thread David Conrad
On May 1, 2020, at 11:07 AM, Aaron Gould wrote: > You made me curious... > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_climbing_Mount_Everest > > wow, I guess it would be great to be able to use cell/gps technology to > communicate with and track a lost/endangered climber

Re: Huawei on Mount Everest

2020-05-01 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:01 AM John Levine wrote: > Given how dangerous the ascent is, I would think it would be a good > thing for climbers to be able to check in and say whether they are OK. Hi John, Climbers who care rent or buy satphones and beacons. They're mostly based on low earth orbit

Re: Huawei on Mount Everest

2020-05-01 Thread Eric Tykwinski
ne > Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 12:58 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Huawei on Mount Everest > > In article > you > write: >> -=-=-=-=-=- >> >> https://telecoms.com/504051/huawei-and-china-mobile-stick-a-5g-base-station-on-mount-everest/ >> >&

RE: Huawei on Mount Everest

2020-05-01 Thread Aaron Gould
=gvtc@nanog.org] On Behalf Of John Levine Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 12:58 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Huawei on Mount Everest In article you write: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >https://telecoms.com/504051/huawei-and-china-mobile-stick-a-5g-base-station-on-mount-everest/ > >Wh

Re: Huawei on Mount Everest

2020-05-01 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >https://telecoms.com/504051/huawei-and-china-mobile-stick-a-5g-base-station-on-mount-everest/ > >Why dont we leave the Everest alone? OTOH, we can now have tiktok >videos and latest instagram posts from the summit. Given how dangerous the ascent is, I would

Re: Huawei on Mount Everest

2020-05-01 Thread Jeff Shultz
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 7:20 AM Glen Kent wrote: > > https://telecoms.com/504051/huawei-and-china-mobile-stick-a-5g-base-station-on-mount-everest/ > > Why dont we leave the Everest alone? OTOH, we can now have tiktok videos and > latest instagram posts from the summit. > > Yippe. Just when you

Re: Huawei and ZTE Routers

2015-05-08 Thread Bacon Zombie
You could try cross posting to UKNOG since BT use Huawei in their DSLAMs. http://lists.uknof.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uknof/ On 7 May 2015 21:18, ML m...@kenweb.org wrote: On 5/7/2015 2:25 PM, Daniel Corbe wrote: Colton Conor colton.co...@gmail.com writes: The other thread about the

Re: Huawei and ZTE Routers

2015-05-07 Thread Daniel Corbe
Colton Conor colton.co...@gmail.com writes: The other thread about the Alcatel-Lucent routers has been pleasantly delightful. Our organization used to believe that Juniper, Cisco, and Brocade were the only true vendors for carrier grade routing, but now we are going to throw Alcatel-Lucent

Re: Huawei and ZTE Routers

2015-05-07 Thread ML
On 5/7/2015 2:25 PM, Daniel Corbe wrote: Colton Conor colton.co...@gmail.com writes: The other thread about the Alcatel-Lucent routers has been pleasantly delightful. Our organization used to believe that Juniper, Cisco, and Brocade were the only true vendors for carrier grade routing, but now

Re: Huawei Atom Router

2014-08-05 Thread Randy Bush
And a bunch of ban's around Oct 2013 from a wide variety of countries... you mean fear of implants as there are in cisco products?

Re: Huawei Atom Router

2014-08-05 Thread Alain Hebert
Was more a statement of fact. As if it was warranted. I do not know. - Alain Hebertaheb...@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.netFax:

Re: Huawei Atom Router

2014-08-05 Thread Rob Seastrom
To be fair, they've fixed one of the big concerns that were raised with them a couple of years ago: google for huawei + psirt now actually returns usable results. No idea how well the interface with them works when you're actually trying to report a vulnerability (maybe someone can speak up).

Re: Huawei Atom Router

2014-08-04 Thread Alain Hebert
Well, Wasn't the Huawei CEO that stated that they where not interested into the US market. ( And by proxy ... the Canadian one ) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/23/huawei_not_interested_in_us/ And a bunch of ban's around Oct 2013 from a wide variety of countries...

Re: Huawei Atom Router

2014-08-04 Thread Donald Eastlake
Huawei has sales personal in the US and does sell here. See http://huawei.com/us/about-huawei/contact-us/index.htm And for a more recent Huawei management statement, see http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2014-04/28/content_17470474.htm Huawei executive says it still seeks US sales Thanks,

Re: huawei

2013-06-18 Thread Scott Helms
So I'm clear, its not just a low bit rate argument. Its a low bit rate, combined with little spare horsepower (CPU RAM), little non-volatile storage, and a deluge of information to sort through in order to find something useful. If core routers weren't in the core, where they have access to

Re: huawei (oscilloscopes and frequency analysis)

2013-06-18 Thread Jazz Kenny
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Tony Patti t...@swalter.com wrote: Thanks, I liked your pointer to the SDR. But can I ask you for a bit more info about your statement where oscilloscopes and frequency analysis is available to anyone with some Google-fu We don't need as much test equipment

Re: huawei (oscilloscopes and frequency analysis)

2013-06-18 Thread Phil Fagan
now THAT would be a cool project! On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Jazz Kenny trapperjohn...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Tony Patti t...@swalter.com wrote: Thanks, I liked your pointer to the SDR. But can I ask you for a bit more info about your statement where

Re: huawei (oscilloscopes and frequency analysis)

2013-06-18 Thread Tom Morris
There's already code out there for the GNURadio project's software defined radio infrastructure that supports some very basic LTE analysis using a $20 or less USB DTV tuner stick!! Only a matter of time before some radio devices with a lot more bandwidth become affordable and easily

Re: huawei (oscilloscopes and frequency analysis)

2013-06-18 Thread Brian Reichert
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 02:31:37PM -0600, Phil Fagan wrote: now THAT would be a cool project! (I missed the beginnig of this thread; sorry if this is a repeat.) There was the fellow demonstrating a spoofed 2G GSM tower at DefCon recently:

Re: huawei

2013-06-16 Thread Phil Fagan
Jay, That's a very interesting point about the 4G puckdo you mean modulating data over side-lobes? To your point, I as a subscriber would have no way every knowing that unless of course I hooked up my specanny and started to try to decode the sidelobesI imagine most folks don't do that (

Re: huawei

2013-06-16 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Phil Fagan philfa...@gmail.com That's a very interesting point about the 4G puckdo you mean modulating data over side-lobes? To your point, I as a subscriber would have no way every knowing that unless of course I hooked up my specanny and started to

Re: huawei

2013-06-16 Thread Jazz Kenny
Why is it so difficult? Hiding communications is an intriguing subject - My ears perked up a bit at the Multics remark - Morse is something that probably never would have even crossed my mind. EDIT: Okay, now it's sent to the list. DOHF! On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Jazz Kenny

RE: huawei

2013-06-16 Thread chris burri
: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:05:46 -0700 Subject: Re: huawei From: trapperjohn...@gmail.com To: nanog@nanog.org Why is it so difficult? Hiding communications is an intriguing subject - My ears perked up a bit at the Multics remark - Morse is something that probably never would have even crossed my mind.

Re: huawei

2013-06-16 Thread Warren Bailey
If it was that easy why did the feds come up with that bts spoofed? Sent from my Mobile Device. Original message From: Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com Date: 06/16/2013 12:46 PM (GMT-08:00) To: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: huawei - Original Message - From: Phil

Re: huawei

2013-06-16 Thread Phil Fagan
exported from the Game into an external program. Greetings Chris --- -= Amat Victoria Curam =- Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:05:46 -0700 Subject: Re: huawei From: trapperjohn...@gmail.com To: nanog@nanog.org Why is it so difficult? Hiding communications is an intriguing subject

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 6/14/13, Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com wrote: Is it possible? Yes, but it's not feasible because the data rate would be too low. That's what I'm trying to get across. There are lots things that can be done but many of those are not useful. [snip] I agree that the data rate will be low. I

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 07:51:22PM -0400, Scott Helms wrote: Really? In a completely controlled network then yes, but not in a production system. There is far too much random noise and actual latency for that to be feasible. The coding used for the stegano side channel can be made quite

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 08:34:49PM -0400, Scott Helms wrote: Is it possible? Yes, but it's not feasible because the data rate would be too low. That's what I'm trying to get across. There are lots things that can be done but many of those are not useful. I could encode communications in

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Scott Helms
With the CPU and RAM available in a router that has to actually continue functioning at the same time? Exactly how much data through put would you consider to be usable in this scenario? Again, my point is not that its impossible but that all these things are impractical AND there are

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Scott Helms
I can't agree Jimmy, I don't see a few bps being anywhere close to being useful in any of the scenarios your describe especially because there are easier ways of doing those things. To do any of that the first thing you have to do is establish the CC channel so now you have a very low bit rate

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 6/15/13, Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com wrote: They're terrible places for gathering non-targeted information because the amount of data flowing through them means that that the likelihood of any give packet having any value is very very low. If the goal includes [snip] The probability of

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Scott Helms
Jimmy, This I agree with and in fact I said in earlier parts of this conversation that the existence of a kill switch and/or backdoor in Huawei gear wouldn't surprise me at all. Of course I'd say the same thing about pretty much all the gear manufacturers and its really just a question of who

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Rich Kulawiec
First: this is a fascinating discussion. Thank you. Second: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 01:56:34AM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: There will be indeed be _plenty_ of ways that a low bit rate channel can do everything the right adversary needs. A few bits for second is plenty of data rate for

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/15/2013 05:13 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: First: this is a fascinating discussion. Thank you. Second: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 01:56:34AM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: There will be indeed be _plenty_ of ways that a low bit rate channel can do everything the right adversary needs. A few bits

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Randy Bush
i wonder if and how many governments are worried about when the nsa tells cisco to send the kill switch signal to their routers. randy

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread joel jaeggli
On 6/15/13 5:35 PM, Randy Bush wrote: i wonder if and how many governments are worried about when the nsa tells cisco to send the kill switch signal to their routers. Having worked for an Israel-based security vendor I'd opine: A. That many sovereign states are concerned about sourcing for

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread cb.list6
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: i wonder if and how many governments are worried about when the nsa tells cisco to send the kill switch signal to their routers. randy What kill switch ? http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/csa/cisco-sa-20090325-udp.html

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com Is it possible? Yes, but it's not feasible because the data rate would be too low. That's what I'm trying to get across. There are lots things that can be done but many of those are not useful. I could encode communications

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Jazz Kenny trapperjohn...@gmail.com What about through SDR? ie. http://nuand.com/ I mean, 'subscriber' seems to indicate a layman, but SDR isn't too complex to get running for someone with a modicum of electronics experience - especially in this day and

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Jazz Kenny
What about through SDR? ie. http://nuand.com/ I mean, 'subscriber' seems to indicate a layman, but SDR isn't too complex to get running for someone with a modicum of electronics experience - especially in this day and age, where oscilloscopes and frequency analysis is available to anyone with

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:34:28AM -0600, Phil Fagan wrote: Yeah, I can't imagine there is any real magic there...mystical protocol not seen over transport. Compromised NICs can leak info through side channels (timing) but it's too low bandwidth. For end user devices with backdoors (remote

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 03:55:24PM -0700, Adrian wrote: Extraordinary claims require extra ordinary proof. Thanks for the pointers; most enlightening. (And I say that even before coffee has taken full effect. I'll re-read once it has.) However, and perhaps I should have explained this in my

Re: huawei (ZTE too)

2013-06-14 Thread tei''
I am only a lurker in this list. I am curious why nobody has mentioned open source. Theres no way all these router-thingies would have all his source code visible? a house made of glass? -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje.

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 09:11:35PM -0400, Scott Helms wrote: I challenge your imagination to come up with a common scenario where a non targeted I'm/they're here that's useful to either the company or the Chinese government keeping in mind that you have no fore knowledge of where these devices

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Tom Taylor
Disclosure: I've been consulting to a group in Huawei for six years, ever since I retired from Nortel. I have seen no sign of anything except competent gathering of competitive information at meetings, the same as we did at Nortel. I would not have expected to see anything else, of course. As

Re: huawei (ZTE too)

2013-06-14 Thread Randy Bush
Last I heard NANOG stands for North American Network Operators Group. Anti-American comments are not welcome here.. LOL

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:34:28AM -0600, Phil Fagan wrote: Yeah, I can't imagine there is any real magic there...mystical protocol not seen over transport. Compromised NICs can leak info through side channels (timing) but

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:21:25 -0400, Tom Taylor said: It's fun to speculate on how one might insert back doors in products, but I'm not sure there's reason to tie such speculation to particular vendors. It's so much fun we've been doing it *at least* since we all wondered where IBM got the

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Scott Helms
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 09:11:35PM -0400, Scott Helms wrote: I challenge your imagination to come up with a common scenario where a non targeted I'm/they're here that's useful to either the company or the Chinese government

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Warren Bailey
Mobile Device. Original message From: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com Date: 06/14/2013 10:23 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org Cc: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: huawei On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 09:11

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:21:09 -0400, Scott Helms said: How? There is truly not that much room in the IP packet to play games and if you're modifying all your traffic this would again be pretty easy to spot. Again, the easiest/cheapest method is that there is a backdoor there already. Do you

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Warren Bailey
Ps.. Has anyone seen evidence echelon is actually PRISM? Sent from my Mobile Device. Original message From: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com Date: 06/14/2013 10:23 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org Cc: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: huawei On Fri, Jun 14, 2013

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/14/2013 10:51 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:21:09 -0400, Scott Helms said: How? There is truly not that much room in the IP packet to play games and if you're modifying all your traffic this would again be pretty easy to spot. Again, the easiest/cheapest

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Scott Helms
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 1:51 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:21:09 -0400, Scott Helms said: How? There is truly not that much room in the IP packet to play games and if you're modifying all your traffic this would again be pretty easy to spot. Again, the

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/14/2013 11:35 AM, Scott Helms wrote: In $random_deployment they have no idea what the topology is and odd behavior is *always *noticed over time. The amount of time it would take to transmit useful information would nearly guarantees someone noticing and the more successful the exploit was

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:35:08 -0400, Scott Helms said: In $random_deployment they have no idea what the topology is and odd behavior is *always *noticed over time. Severe selection bias in that statement. Odd *noticed* behavior is always noticed. There's literally *no* way to know how many

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 6/14/13, Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com wrote: backdoors (intentional or not) are in most if not all gear. Having said that, it would still be pretty obvious in mass and over time to have packets going to a predesignated host. Its not really possible for a box to know whether its in a

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Scott Helms
Really? In a completely controlled network then yes, but not in a production system. There is far too much random noise and actual latency for that to be feasible. On Jun 14, 2013 7:35 PM, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/14/13, Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com wrote: backdoors

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 6/14/13, Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com wrote: Really? In a completely controlled network then yes, but not in a production system. There is far too much random noise and actual latency for that to be feasible. I think you might be applying an oversimplified assumption the situation.

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Scott Helms
Is it possible? Yes, but it's not feasible because the data rate would be too low. That's what I'm trying to get across. There are lots things that can be done but many of those are not useful. I could encode communications in fireworks displays, but that's not effective for any sort of

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Warren Bailey
It is if you're trying to figure out something far away, smoke signals come to mind (seriously). Any amount of noise seen (aside from AWGN, obviously) in the world is not a big deal. We have pretty neat ways to clean up noise in bandwidth channels. ;)

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/14/2013 05:34 PM, Scott Helms wrote: Is it possible? Yes, but it's not feasible because the data rate would be too low. That's what I'm trying to get across. There are lots things that can be done but many of those are not useful. I could encode communications in fireworks displays,

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Scott Helms
I was a military guyback in the day 31m and 31q to be precise. On Jun 14, 2013 9:09 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: On 06/14/2013 05:34 PM, Scott Helms wrote: Is it possible? Yes, but it's not feasible because the data rate would be too low. That's what I'm trying to get across.

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Phil Fagan
I've always wondered about thatwould you know that the Huawei is leaking data? On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: we really should not be putting huawei kit into the backbone, there might be backdoors where they can spy on our traffic oh well, so much

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Nick Khamis
A local clec here in Canada just teamed up with this company to provide cell service to the north: http://cwta.ca/blog/2012/09/24/ice-wireless-iristel-and-huawei-partner-for-3g-wireless-network-in-northern-canada/ Scary N.

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jun 13, 2013, at 12:18 , Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: A local clec here in Canada just teamed up with this company to provide cell service to the north: http://cwta.ca/blog/2012/09/24/ice-wireless-iristel-and-huawei-partner-for-3g-wireless-network-in-northern-canada/ Scary

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Randy Bush
I've always wondered about thatwould you know that the Huawei is leaking data? yes. they have a contract to leak it to the NSA

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread david raistrick
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Phil Fagan wrote: I've always wondered about thatwould you know that the Huawei is leaking data? the puddle on the floor isn't a giveaway? -- david raistrickhttp://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html dr...@icantclick.org ascii ribbon campaign -

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-06-13 12:22 -0400), Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Do you think Huawei has a magic ability to transmit data without you noticing? I always found it dubious that public sector can drop them from tender citing publicly about spying, when AFAIK Huawei hasn't never actually been to court about

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Michael Hallgren
Le 13/06/2013 18:22, Randy Bush a écrit : I've always wondered about thatwould you know that the Huawei is leaking data? yes. they have a contract to leak it to the NSA :-) mh

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Phil Fagan
Yeah, I can't imagine there is any real magic there...mystical protocol not seen over transport. On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:26 AM, david raistrick dr...@icantclick.orgwrote: On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Phil Fagan wrote: I've always wondered about thatwould you know that the Huawei is leaking

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
or something that is magically messaged from the mother ship, but I am dubious. It should be trivial to prove to yourself the box is, or is not, doing something evil if you actually try. -- TTFN, patrick --Original Message-- From: Patrick W. Gilmore To: NANOG list Subject: Re: huawei Sent

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/13/2013 09:31 AM, Saku Ytti wrote: On (2013-06-13 12:22 -0400), Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Do you think Huawei has a magic ability to transmit data without you noticing? I always found it dubious that public sector can drop them from tender citing publicly about spying, when AFAIK Huawei

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Phil Fagan
Subject: Re: huawei Sent: Jun 13, 2013 12:22 PM On Jun 13, 2013, at 12:18 , Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: A local clec here in Canada just teamed up with this company to provide cell service to the north: http://cwta.ca/blog/2012/09/24/ice-wireless-iristel-and-huawei-partner

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/13/2013 09:35 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: I am assuming a not-Hauwei-only network. The idea that a router could send things through other routers without someone who is looking for it noticing is ludicrous. ::cough:: steganography ::cough:: Mike

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Warren Bailey
. You don't need to relay data out to cause harm or watch over something, you simply have to visit more. ;) Sent from my Mobile Device. Original message From: Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net Date: 06/13/2013 9:24 AM (GMT-08:00) To: NANOG list nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Nick Khamis
On 6/13/13, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: On 06/13/2013 09:35 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: I am assuming a not-Hauwei-only network. The idea that a router could send things through other routers without someone who is looking for it noticing is ludicrous. ::cough:: steganography

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Scott Helms
Not really, no one has claimed it's impossible to hide traffic. What is true is that it's not feasible to do so at scale without it becoming obvious. Steganography is great for hiding traffic inside of legitimate traffic between two hosts but if one of my routers starts sending cay photos

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/13/2013 10:20 AM, Scott Helms wrote: Not really, no one has claimed it's impossible to hide traffic. What is true is that it's not feasible to do so at scale without it becoming obvious. Steganography is great for hiding traffic inside of legitimate traffic between two hosts but if

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Warren Bailey
. Original message From: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com Date: 06/13/2013 10:22 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com Cc: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: huawei Not really, no one has claimed it's impossible to hide traffic. What is true is that it's not feasible to do

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Jun 13, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: Also, I find it difficult to believe Hauwei has the ability to do DPI or something inside their box and still route at reasonable speeds is a bit silly. Perhaps they only duplicate packets based on source/dest IP

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Scott Helms
That is far more feasible than mass interception and forwarding of traffic, though there is (AFAIK) no indication that such a kill switch exists. I also think that if China wanted to do something nefarious a far better target would be Lenovo, which still seems to be an accepted vendor in US

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Phil Fagan
This is a good point; unless your taping your traffic and examining it for anything outside of the norm then would you ever see it? However, we are talking transport protocols, no? I would certainly hope the OOB network was monitored and controlled. Hmm.a network of clients/servers

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 13/06/2013 18:42, Leo Bicknell wrote: A hard coded backdoor password and username. e.g.: http://www.phenoelit.org/dpl/dpl.html Or alternatively if you want access to any huawei device with software older than about a year ago: http://phenoelit.org/stuff/Huawei_DEFCON_XX.pdf A sequence of

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Mark Seiden
be trivial to prove to yourself the box is, or is not, doing something evil if you actually try. -- TTFN, patrick --Original Message-- From: Patrick W. Gilmore To: NANOG list Subject: Re: huawei Sent: Jun 13, 2013 12:22 PM On Jun 13, 2013, at 12:18 , Nick Khamis sym

Re: huawei (ZTE too)

2013-06-13 Thread Bryan Fields
On 6/13/13 1:35 PM, Warren Bailey wrote: They are a state controlled company. You think the PRC's party members dont call the shots? I've been to Beijing for work.. I can assure you the government has a very known presence through the private community. Often times, graduates of their state

Re: huawei (ZTE too)

2013-06-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Bryan Fields br...@bryanfields.net wrote: They are playing our love of But Wait There's More!. Give us everything at deep discounts or for free and receive direct access to the core of every major telecom company on the planet. For a few hundred million dollars

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Joel M Snyder
If this hasn't been beaten to death, a longer discussion of the threat of Huawei/ZTE is discussed in this article I wrote for Information Security a few months back: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/feature/The-Huawei-security-risk-Factors-to-consider-before-buying-Chinese-IT jms -- Joel

Re: huawei (ZTE too)

2013-06-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Bryan Fields wrote: My objection to ZTE/Hauwei when I was at a cellular telco was just this. I said there was no way I can agree with Chinese nationals having unfettered access to our network. Why would anyone outside of the US agree to have US products in their

Re: huawei (ZTE too)

2013-06-13 Thread Warren Bailey
Is that also not possibly the case with Cisco, Juniper, XYZ network equipment vendors? If the Chinese are doing it, I would imagine we (along with our pals) are doing it as well. It'll be interesting to see what NSA dox this guy drops in the coming days and weeks ahead. All of the TV pundits were

Re: huawei (ZTE too)

2013-06-13 Thread Bryan Fields
On 6/13/13 3:41 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: My objection to ZTE/Hauwei when I was at a cellular telco was just this. I said there was no way I can agree with Chinese nationals having unfettered access to our network. Why would anyone outside of the US agree to have US products in their

Re: huawei (ZTE too)

2013-06-13 Thread david peahi
Apologies for making what could be construed as an off topic, political comment, but doesn't everyone in the USA know by now that the PRC represents a dagger aimed at the economic and national security of America? A military invasion in slow motion as it were? David On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at

Re: huawei (ZTE too)

2013-06-13 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2013-06-13 13:01, david peahi wrote: Apologies for making what could be construed as an off topic, political comment, but doesn't everyone in the USA know by now that the PRC represents a dagger aimed at the economic and national security of America? A military invasion in slow motion as it

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Mark Gallagher
I think one of the possibilities suggested beyond call-home or backdoors was that they might have installed a secret kill-switch to be activated against 'enemy' nodes in time of war was an cyber shock and awe campaign. mg On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote:

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Randy Bush
They are a state controlled company. You think the PRC's party members dont call the shots? and you live in a police and surveillance state where the govt sniffs evey packet you send, ever phone call you make, ... other than style, what's the dfference? oh, i guess the chinese are only

Re: huawei (ZTE too)

2013-06-13 Thread david peahi
Last I heard NANOG stands for North American Network Operators Group. Anti-American comments are not welcome here.. David On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Jeroen Massar jer...@massar.ch wrote: On 2013-06-13 13:01, david peahi wrote: Apologies for making what could be construed as an off

Re: huawei (ZTE too)

2013-06-13 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2013-06-13 14:28, david peahi wrote: Last I heard NANOG stands for North American Network Operators Group. Anti-American comments are not welcome here.. (IMHO there was nothing 'anti-american' about my statement, though I guess it completely depends on what the definition of that would be;

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