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On January 8th, according to Reuters, a national nuclear weapon laboratory was reported that the Huawei used by Huawei's network switch made by the United States joint venture company, there may be security threats, which has been deactivated and replaced. Also, it will be further evaluated for the possible impact.
A date was displayed on November 5, last year, a letter from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA, which is installed in the lab installed equipment from China Strong Creditcopy (H3C). It is reported that H3C has worked for a joint venture under the 3com name of China Huawei, and once known as Huawei-3COM, and later was acquired in 2010.
This discovery allows the industry to question the procurement method of the US national security department. US government, Congress worry, Huawei and other companies may close with the Chinese government and military relations. However, this world's second largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer denying any risks, and said its business is not affected by the Chinese military.
The switch is primarily used to manage data traffic on your computer network. However, Alamos National Lab has not been revealed that the number of Chinese production exchanges in its system, and the specific installation time, and whether these devices are sensitive to the system, or whether there is a security hidden danger. It is reported that this laboratory was responsible for the design of the first atomic bomb in the United States, and mainly garing the task of safeguarding the US nuclear weapon library.
Due to the requirements of the National Nuclear Weapons Security Bureau of the US Department of Energy, Los Alamos laboratory spokesperson issued comments.
The date obtained by Reuters is the letter from November 5, 2012, and the chief information officer of Loss Alamos is sent to NNSA Protection and Security Assistant. The letter is pointed out that in October 2012, a network engineer in the laboratory alarm, and there is an H3C device in its network.
The letter said that the expert working group of the laboratory anti-intelligence department has begun to investigate and "mainly target the sensitive network." The laboratory pointed out that a few devices in the network indeed from H3C, and both devices will be replaced in a timely manner.
However, in the letter, there is still other H3C devices in the network, but it will be replaced as soon as possible. In addition, the laboratory is undergoing formal assessments to determine H3C devices left in the network, which may bring potential security hazards.
"Alamos laboratory carefully pays particular attention to this issue, and quickly takes action and other active measures to solve this problem."
The company document shows that in 2007, Huawei sold H3C's equity sales with 3COM. However, the H3C website will still describe the global strategic partner, and expressed its cooperation with the company to produce advanced, efficient and environmentally friendly products.
Reckless objection
It is reported that Los Aramos's letter is to report any possible supply chain risks to the Energy Department last year. The US government accountability office reported, part involving national security departments, did not take appropriate prevention measures to reduce the risk of computing equipment providers.
Armed Services Committee Requires Energy to assess all major contractors using China Huawei and ZTE equipment.
In 2008, due to the influence of US national security issues, Huawei and private equity company Bain Capital was forced to give up the bid on 3COM. Three years later, the pressure on the US Foreign Investment Committee was forced to give up the asset acquisition of 3LLEF for server technology companies.
In October 2012, in the US House Intelligence Committee, in a survey report, it is recommended that the US government system stops using Huawei and ZTE components. According to the report, these two companies cannot completely rule out the country's impact, will bring security hazards to the United States and their systems.
Huawei's vice president of foreign affairs, William Plummer, responded in an e-mail, "Never have any substantive evidence to prove that Huawei's equipment is lower than other competitors. All of our equipment It is based on unified global standards, supply, coding, and manufacturing. "
"Only in accordance with the country of origin, it is not treated by multinational companies, and puts forward, this is a very reckless decision. This way of handling will cultivate a dangerous illusion in network security and threaten the fair of the United States has always advocated. , Free international trade system. "
A spokesman for HP said that in the past few years in HP acquisition, H3C has begun to operate independently, Huawei no longer designs H3C hardware. He added that HP network departments put into great efforts to comply with all legal and regulations including system security, global trade, customer privacy, etc.
Source: Phoenix Technology, Reading
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