Ask HN: Should we be concerned with the Nexus 6P from Huawei?

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11 years ago

I just recently found out that Huawei has a long history of not so honest practices and the US government at least heavily warns against using their telecom products. More about this specific concern can be found here http://www.cbsnews.com/news/huawei-probed-for-security-espionage-risk/

I actually learned this from a comment here on HN from rl3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10297879#up_10300668

As somebody who ordered the 6P I was very concerned and wanted to see what the community thought of this. Further thought doesn't have me much concerned about backdoors for the chinese government. Why would they be interested in me, an American citizen. But what does have me more concerned is the NSA's ability to find and exploit that backdoor. In fact I believe the Snowden docs showed this was the plan.

I don't know if this is even worth worrying about considering the baseband.

What do you folks think?

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