http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/10/huawei_canada_network/ By Brid-Aine Parnell The Register 10th October 2012 The Canadian government has said that it will be invoking a "national security exemption" as it hires firms to build a secure network, hinting that Chinese telco Huawei could be excluded. The exemption allows the government to kick out of the running any companies or nations considered a security risk, which coming in the wake of the US report earlier this week labelling Huawei and ZTE as security threats, strongly indicates they're out of the bidding. Prime Minister Stephen Harper's top media spokesman refused to say for sure whether the government had Huawei in mind when invoking the exemption. "The government is going to be choosing carefully in the construction of this network and it has invoked the national security exception for the building of this network," he said, according to the Calgary Herald. [...] -- Get your CEH, CISSP or ISSMP with ExpandingSecurity.com Live OnLine classes that will not wreck your schedule. Come to a free class and see how good our program really is. Free weekly PainPill: http://www.expandingsecurity.com/PainPillReceived on Thu Oct 11 2012 - 00:23:13 PDT
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