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US Government Probes Huawei and ZTE

Posted by Unknown on from the dsm-v-to-add-congressional-service-to-axis-ii dept.

judgecorp writes "Two leading Chinese telecoms companies, Huawei and ZTE, are under investigation for possible spying in the U.S. A government committee says the companies may be stealing U.S. economic secrets, and use of their equipment might open U.S. infrastructure to espionage."

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  1. Duh! by DontBlameCanada · · Score: 4, Informative

    Huawei is a Chinese government funded company. I'm sure the funding isn't charity.

    I would've thought after Huawei was caught stealing cisco tech (http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/Cisco_Mot_for_PI.pdf), that they'd be blackballed for any government network deployments.

    1. Re:Duh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Google for "echelon."

    2. Re:Duh! by Joce640k · · Score: 4, Informative

      It's a pretty famous case*, a special European commission was even formed to investigate it.

      For the lazy: http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep-fin.htm

      [*] ie. a Google for something like "nsa boeing airbus" would have found a cite in seconds

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