Politicians USA: Chinese hardware is a security risk

A committee lwa of the U.s. house of representatives will investigate the extent to which Chinese network equipment vulnerability. This includes products from the manufacturers ZTE and Huawei.

That has a member of the house announced. An earlier investigation into Chinese telecomhardware manufacturers would, according to the politician have shown that there is a big security issue could be: the Americans are afraid that the Chinese government equipment from Chinese manufacturers can use to get to the United States to spy.

The new survey should map the extent to which manufacturers such as Huawei and ZTE a threat to the United States could be. Huawei and ZTE, in addition to smartphones and tablets are also network hardware, and it seems that the U.s. house of representatives is afraid that the Chinese government, for example, via a backdoor would be able to look at telecom and computer networks.

A spokesman of the Chinese ministry of foreign affairs has according to Bloomberg, indicated that Chinese companies ‘to the principles of the market’ work. ZTE has announced that it is working on the research, as well as Huawei, which states that the integrity of the company ‘worldwide proved’.