Nokia has issued a public statement to distance itself from the comments made by its CTO to the BBC over Huawei's security issues—those comments followed a U.S. security report suggesting major flaws in the Chinese company's equipment, including potential backdoors.
devices quantitatively pose a high risk to their users. In virtually all categories we examined, Huawei devices were found to be less secure than those from other vendors making similar devices." According to Finite State, Out of all the firmware images analyzed, 55% had at least one potential backdoor,".
Jerry Wang, the CEO of Huawei U.K. supplied a statement after Weldon's comments, saying that"Nokia’s statement that one executive’s comments on Huawei do not reflect their official position is a recognition that ill-informed loose talk does not help our customers or the industry more widely. We win new business by fair competition and on the basis of our technology and customer focus, not by denigrating our competitors.
Wang added that"Huawei is the world leader in 5G because our technology is the most advanced, as our market position confirms, we’ve already won 50 5G contracts globally, well ahead of the competition. The best way to improve cybersecurity and ensure network resilience is for all vendors to agree to independent testing of their equipment and source code—just as we have done in the U.K."
That Nokia stepped in to correct Weldon's comments is not a surprise and is in keeping with their public position until now. Although officially disowned, the comments—coming in the wake of the Finite State report—still make for interesting reading though.
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