On April 30th, global wireless telecom company Vodafone went public with a statement to Bloomberg News saying that the London-based wireless provider found “hidden backdoors,” i.e. multiple security flaws in the wireless network supplied by Chinese network provider Huawei. The problem first surfaced in 2011 when Vodafone engineers found “backdoors” in Huawei broadband gateway (home router) equipment in their Italian network. Backdoors are software access points which allow the network manager (Huawei in this case), or third parties like hackers or spies, to get into the network and potentially see the private data traffic of millions of users.
