Posted on 04/20/2021 8:14:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Chinese military-affiliated technology firm Huawei, which supplied telecom equipment to Netherlands’ largest mobile phone network KPN, had unlimited access to the Dutch company’s 6.5 million users including the then Dutch Prime Minister’s phone calls and personal data.
On April 17, Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant reported that in 2010 KPN commissioned the Capgemini consultancy firm to do an internal investigation on the security of its Huawei core network. However, Capgemini’s confidential report was so damning that KPN buried it until recently when it was brought to light, according to de Volkskrant.
Capgemini reported that Huawei staff had penetrated to the core of KPN’s systems and they could, and did have access to and eavesdrop on any subscriber number, including then Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende, from both within KPN’s offices and from China. Chinese state security operatives based in China could do the same. They also had unlimited access to the personal data of all KPN users, said the report.
The KPN subscribers include the prime minister, cabinet ministers, politicians, businesses, individuals, and Chinese dissidents, which are the main targets of the Chinese communist regime’s surveillance.
Huawei also knew which numbers were being tapped by the Dutch police and intelligence and security service—the AIVD (Algemene Inlichtingen en Veiligheidsdienst), according to the report.
There were six Huawei employees who worked at KPN’s former HQ in The Hague when Huawei’s core network technology was being installed in KPN’s systems in 2009. The suspicion is that at least some of them were engaged in espionage activities, said the report.
KPN contracted Capgemini to investigate and report back in 2010 after being repeatedly warned by the AIVD that Huawei was suspected of widespread technological infiltration and espionage and that its network equipment was highly suspect.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
Look for DementiaJoe to mandate Huwaei as the preferred military telephone equipment provider.
I had one of their phones when I lived in HK.
The choice was Samsung Fascist, Apple Fascist or Chinese Fascist. I went with the local criminals.
Another time Trump was right...
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Yup. Potatus will reverse that move by Trump soon.
D’oh!
Commies gona commie. News at 11.
Samsung is South Korean. I trust them more than Apple or anything china.
Samsung uses Android.
Which Huawei helped Google develop, IIRC.
“It’s almost like you can’t trust the Commie Chinese”
It’s what happens when entire generations of Westerners are NOT taught what Communism is based on history, but instead are taught by Leftists that Communism is peaches and roses...so why should they fear Communists?
The last admin, put a stop to this; its been resumed. Welcome to your Chicom masters.
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