More generally however, a lot of tech manufactured in China has concern around it. Numerous western govt's have blacklisted the use of anything Chinese-produced over fears of espionage and general quality. A good example is the 'backdoors' that have shown up in Lenovo computers post-acquisition.
I think there may be a little confusion between the the fact that Huawei makes networking gear which is blacklisted with a number of western govt's, with their mobile offerings - and several reports of 'malware' haven't helped muddy the waters.
It got a ton of upvotes on HN much to my confusion, given that the PDF reads like a marketing release trying to sell mobile AV (there's a whole side-topic of conversation there). Furthermore, the click-bait title highlights Lenovo, Huawei, etc when the actual report only outlines 3 never-heard-of-before vendors and mentions they 'suspect' the other vendors of distributing infected phones.
Again, I would never own a Chinese-designed phone, but I think it's worth verifying claims.
More generally however, a lot of tech manufactured in China has concern around it. Numerous western govt's have blacklisted the use of anything Chinese-produced over fears of espionage and general quality. A good example is the 'backdoors' that have shown up in Lenovo computers post-acquisition.
I think there may be a little confusion between the the fact that Huawei makes networking gear which is blacklisted with a number of western govt's, with their mobile offerings - and several reports of 'malware' haven't helped muddy the waters.
That said I wouldn't use a Huawei phone.
Edit: here's the report regarding Malware: https://public.gdatasoftware.com/Presse/Publikationen/Malwar...
It got a ton of upvotes on HN much to my confusion, given that the PDF reads like a marketing release trying to sell mobile AV (there's a whole side-topic of conversation there). Furthermore, the click-bait title highlights Lenovo, Huawei, etc when the actual report only outlines 3 never-heard-of-before vendors and mentions they 'suspect' the other vendors of distributing infected phones.
Again, I would never own a Chinese-designed phone, but I think it's worth verifying claims.