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Chinese Networking Vendor Huawei's Murky Ownership
A month ago we mentioned India's suspicions that telecomm equipment from China might contain backdoors. There hasn't been any smoking gun on such speculation. Now reader littlekorea sends in some background on the ties one important Chinese telecomm vender might or might not have to the government there. "Conspiracy theories abound as to whether networking kit vendor Huawei is owned or controlled by the Chinese government and/or the military-industrial complex. But who really owns Huawei? Kiwi journalist Juha Saarinen headed to Shanghai to find out."
This should be easy as hell to figure out. Making this Idle and FUD. GJ /. supporting rumours that push the two largest countries away from each other, that always benefits the world.
Let me make this clear, China might be a bit of a douche to its citizenry but China is not out to get you America. As sad as this sounds, better you hate and fear people with turbans from the middle east, at least it won't develop into more than a couple million dead in the next 50years.
Yes, a method to prove. Evidence. Proof. That's because this is a Chinese conspiracy theory.
You know what he'd get if he had an American conspiracy theory? Ridicule, blame, he'd be "unpatriotic", he'd be a "right-wing wacko nutjob" etc. and no demands for proof would be made.
See the difference, or are you the oblivious one?
With 9/11 there is already an abundance of proof that is quite anomalous if the official pancake-theory story is to be believed. It was quite obviously a controlled demolition and was not caused by crashing jets or fires started by jet fuel. That is known to anyone who might study physics. Oh and the traces of thermite on the remaining steel is hard to explain in terms of jet fuel also. Nobody cares though, because that would make you a nutjob.
Huawei makes their own stuff and builds their own code. It isn't junk and it isn't cloned Cisco equipment. They are making inroads with North American ISPs because of their cost, quality and ability to deliver.
That said, before my company purchased the first device from them, we had heard a lot of information about the PLA owning Huawei. Off the record, a sales droid told me that it isn't so much direct ownership but more that the PLA has all the money and influence, and that nothing happens unless the PLA approves it. Huawei builds stuff for the PLA and the PLA tells Huawei what to build. The relationship is supposedly so close that it walks and talks like direct ownership. I believe the PLA was concerned about CIA backdoors in Cisco equipment and China wanted to have in-country capability..
I'm sure that if the PLA wants a backdoor built into a highrise DSL cabinet then Huawei would be happy to oblige.
Go figure.
US has no spies? No industrial espionage?
You know, there's quite a bit of consensus (there's that word again!) that US intelligence agencies collecting data about foes, or potential foes, also provide some hints to US companies...
One that hath name thou can not otter