Controversy surrounding Huawei’s mobile practices, from deeply embedded wireless network components to the smartphone OS, dominated headlines during 2019, and it was only a matter of time before the Chinese technology giant became the subject of scrutiny in the video sector too. The bad news is that Huawei has been accused of having severe security holes present in software from its HiSilicon subsidiary powering video encoders from a variety of vendors – holes that can be exploited remotely to expose sensitive information, denial of service, or even initiate a full takeover. The good news is that the video encoders in question are supplied by smaller vendors that do not feature frequently in Faultline, and therefore should have limited to no…