This week on the 糖心Vlog Podcast, William is back to talk about Zombieload, Zombieland, Huawei, Intel and 5G.
Huawei is facing some difficulties
editor and writer discuss:
- Huawei's CFO is still in Canada, fighting extradition to the US, and now the US government has put a ban in place on the purchase of Huawei equipment. Other countries are being encouraged to follow. What's this mean for 5G?
- The UK is not on board with a Huawei ban, and Vodafone is going to launch a 5G service shortly -- using Huawei gear behind the scenes.
- Meanwhile, Apple is buying 5G modems from Qualcomm -- for now. It's expected that Apple is working to make its own equivalent, but that's not expected to reach iPhones before 2025. Victor has the reasons for the delay.
- ZombieLoad. William keeps calling it Zombieland, like the movie he's never seen, which may indicate how seriously he treats this particular security vulnerability. Victor is more concerned and explains the effects of fully mitigating it, plus the whole concept of threat modeling.
- Speaking of vulnerabilities, WhatsApp had its own, and Bloomberg this was reason to go a bit nuclear on the entire concept of end-to-end encryption. Victor wants to talk about the difference between an error in implementation, and the value of encryption. William wants Bloomberg to put up or shut up.
- And for fun, we talk a bit about electric skateboards that work with iPhones. Evolve just launched a new iPhone-connected board, and we talk about the point of these things -- and the price.
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- Huawei faces dual US bans, Dutch accusations of carrier backdoor
- A full ban on sale & purchase of Huawei 5G & other networking gear in the US appears imminent [u]
- Vodafone set to deploy UK 5G on July 3 using controversial Huawei gear
- Report: Apple's 5G modem to arrive in 2025, execs 'fed up' with slow Intel development
- Apple says these Macs may not be patched for future vulnerabilities similar to 'ZombieLoad'
- Why that 40% performance hit for full 'ZombieLoad' mitigations probably won't affect you
- No, Bloomberg, end-to-end encryption isn't a worthless 'marketing device'
- Evolve launches its first iPhone-connected skateboards with new GTR series
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