Worse than that, Vodafone defends Huawei and their actions.
These backdoors persist today, according to an article done by Bloomberg, yet Vodafone continues to work with Huawei. According to Vodafone, these backdoors presented a risk of consumer’s data and connections being hijacked by third-party threats and hackers. Even worse, there were backdoors in Huawei’s “optical service nodes”, which control and regulate Internet traffic. Issue solved, right? Not exactly, as Vodafone noticed that Huawei ended up leaving some backdoors open. When confronted, Huawei explained that the backdoors were kept for security testing purposes, but that they’d remove the backdoors. Vodafone, arguably the largest mobile phone operator in Europe, noticed that Huawei had implemented backdoors into their routers and network equipment back in 2011.
One early incident involved Vodafone and Huawei’s routers. Actually, Huawei has been catching flak for their security since the early 2000’s. Huawei and security concerns are an iconic duo, and this isn’t a recent development. Wherever Huawei goes, security concerns rise, this story is no different. But as much as I feel bad for them, Huawei seems to be doing this to themselves. has been working on nothing but the legal ban of Huawei products, and now Italian company Vodafone is dragging Huawei through the mud as well. LOOKING INTO ALLEGED HUAWEI BACKDOORS U.S.