Posted on 03/22/2014 7:48:35 PM PDT by Star Traveler
WASHINGTON — American officials have long considered Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, a security threat, blocking it from business deals in the United States for fear that the company would create “back doors” in its equipment that could allow the Chinese military or Beijing-backed hackers to steal corporate and government secrets.
But even as the United States made a public case about the dangers of buying from Huawei, classified documents show that the National Security Agency was creating its own back doors — directly into Huawei’s networks.
The agency pried its way into the servers in Huawei’s sealed headquarters in Shenzhen, China’s industrial heart, according to N.S.A. documents provided by the former contractor Edward J. Snowden. It obtained information about the workings of the giant routers and complex digital switches that Huawei boasts connect a third of the world’s population, and monitored communications of the company’s top executives.
One of the goals of the operation, code-named “Shotgiant,” was to find any links between Huawai and the People’s Liberation Army, one 2010 document made clear. But the plans went further: to exploit Huawai’s technology so that when the company sold equipment to other countries — including both allies and nations that avoid buying American products — the N.S.A. could roam through their computer and telephone networks to consduct surveillance and, if ordered by the president, offensive cyberoperations.
Ren Zhengfei, founder of Huawei, is seen as a Chinese version of Steve Jobs. Credit Dmitry Lovetsky/Associated Press “Many of our targets communicate over Huawei-produced products,” the N.S.A. document said. “We want to make sure that we know how to exploit these products,” it added, to “gain access to networks of interest” around the world.
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Snowden turned this over to the press. They are the ones that revealed this.
Thanks! 5 passengers? Very intereresting.
No wait, there is something wrong.
Shane Todd Freescale obit is 2006. Shane Todd murdered is 2012.
Something amiss. I gotta go look
Two different Shane Todds
Thanks, Star!
Shane Todd from 2006 Freescale was 30 when he died.
Shane Todd 2012 was 31 when he died.
I wonder if that 2006 story is a plant/cover story/ or what..
I have to look at this some more tomorrow.
2006 Shane Todds Grandmother
http://www.moultrieobserver.com/obituaries_archive_url/x546261707/Cortez-Todd-Hewett
So Freescale Shane Todd is not the murdered/suicided Shane Todd from 2012.
How weird is life that two Shane Todds who work as Semiconductor engineers die at about the same age.
Good for us. I hope we're doing the same to Russia and the ME countries.
At least the NSA finally did something right.
Exactly.
Depends on what you consider innovation. The Bolshoi ballet and the Moscow circus are world-renowned and probably beyond compare.
Did you not read the part about their products being sold to and used by Americans? Do you want your Samsung or Lenovo products with NSA backdoors built in?
Pfft.
Huawei has ripped off so much of cisco’s IP that it simply stands to reason that if the NSA has penetrated US domestic networks using cisco gear, they’ve penetrated Huawei’s network made of clone boxes and stolen software.
Duuuuuh.
Do you like using Microsoft Windows with built-in backdoors? Or cisco and Juniper routers with backdoors in them?
Because you already are.
Malasia has also done an about-face and admitted they were shipping LiOn batteries in bulk on the plane.
i give permission for the chinese to physically retaliate on president mom jeans and mooch. please.
You mean a medal from our new government.
I guess we can have NSA backdoors in addition to the chinese ones.
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