Posted on 02/13/2020 2:44:01 PM PST by bitt
The Chinese company Huawei can secretly tap into communications through the networking equipment it sells globally, a U.S. official charged as the White House stepped up efforts to persuade allies to ban the gear from next-generation cellular networks.
The U.S. national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, made the statement at an Atlantic Council forum on Tuesday evening after The Wall Street Journal quoted him as saying Huawei can “access sensitive and personal information” in systems it sells and maintains globally. O’Brien did not provide any evidence to support the claim.
U.S. officials have long argued that Huawei is duty-bound by Chinese law to spy on behalf of the country’s ruling Communist Party. Huawei denies that claim and issued a statement Wednesday saying the company “has never and will never covertly access telecom networks, nor do we have the capability to do so.”
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What’s worse, Huawei probably stole the idea from Cisco!
I wonder if the stories that have been going around the last few days about how the CIA was able to tap government communications worldwide are part of a fear and doubt campaign from either us or the Chinese.
Chinese chips in hard drives were phoning home back in the 2008-2009 time period. Tens of thousands had to be removed from government computers and servers.
“Duty bound”? They’ll take a dirt nap if they dont. And for some reason we’ve bee encouraged to think, for over a generation now, that China is just another partner.
After Clinton, Bush & Obama, it is refreshing to have a US administration that does not bow to the Chinese.
I wouldn’t be surprised if all the Microsoft and apple stuff has the same features.
We had some equipment from China at the last place I worked, and it was so filled with spy Ware and Trojans that we had to make sure it was physically removed from any Internet connection and posted signs all around it saying never to connect it, and we physically disabled the internet board.
It was the only software for that device so we had no choice but to use it.
Well, if I were paranoid that's how I'd set one up...
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