Xi Quips About Backdoors During Xiaomi Phone Gift To Korea's Lee (yahoo.com) 10
An anonymous reader shares a report: Chinese President Xi Jinping joked about security backdoors while presenting a pair of Xiaomi smartphones to his South Korean counterpart, a rare moment of spontaneous levity captured during a week of tense trade negotiations with Donald Trump.
Xi, in South Korea to meet Trump on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, presented the pair of devices to Korean President Lee Jae Myung. In a video circulated on social media, Lee asked: "Is the line secure?" Xi chuckled, pointed at the gadgets and replied through an interpreter: "You can check if there's a backdoor." The two leaders burst into laughter.
The exchange was striking because the issue of security and alleged espionage is a sensitive one and a major thorn in US-Chinese relations. American lawmakers have raised the possibility that tech companies such as Huawei build backdoors -- ways to gain access to sensitive data -- into their equipment or services, something the firms have repeatedly denied.
Xi, in South Korea to meet Trump on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, presented the pair of devices to Korean President Lee Jae Myung. In a video circulated on social media, Lee asked: "Is the line secure?" Xi chuckled, pointed at the gadgets and replied through an interpreter: "You can check if there's a backdoor." The two leaders burst into laughter.
The exchange was striking because the issue of security and alleged espionage is a sensitive one and a major thorn in US-Chinese relations. American lawmakers have raised the possibility that tech companies such as Huawei build backdoors -- ways to gain access to sensitive data -- into their equipment or services, something the firms have repeatedly denied.
XI Already Owns Me Idiot (Score:5, Funny)
XIAOMI is acronym of XI Already Owns Me Idiot
vidya (Score:3)
Here's a video of the actual exchange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Dunno how much the laugh should be read as politeness, but seeing the two leaders in each others company in a rather laid back manner does not bode well for US ambitions in SEA.
Re: (Score:2)
More winning! I'm getting tired of this!!
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Just watch, Rump will have his first-ever foreign policy success any day now!
In related news ... (Score:3)
It's a real problem. (Score:3)
I'm quite willing to accept that the backdoors exist, and consider it plausible that they were originally added for debugging, and just not removed in the final code. But *if* they exist, then they *are* vulnerabilities. How serious? I don't think I'd trust either government on that.
Backdoors (Score:3)