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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. Economic Secrets? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The best way to compete with China is probably to give them all the secrets to our current economy and hope they use them.

    1. Re:Economic Secrets? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The US economy is actually working great. You might be under the false impression that you're one of the people it's intended to work for. But the people who have 10,000 times your income couldn't be happier.

  2. No good can come from this by MikeRT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The People's Republic of China is a totalitarian state and most of its "private industry" is a facade for their civilian government or military. They routinely get caught with massive espionage operations in other countries. Whatever good that can from theoretically lower prices are negated by everything else that'll come with their increased role.

    Even if the federal government so thoroughly separated itself from the telecommunication system that the NSA spy scandal was not even remotely possible, letting China get its tentacles deeper into our country's workings is asking for a lot of trouble. If in time they establish a backbone connection to Asia, you can bet your ass their spy agencies will be tapping it harder than a keg of top grade beer at a college party.

  3. Industrial espionage by girlintraining · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Everyone is so concerned about China, but wouldn't you know, France is so well-known for industrial espionage that executives for pharmaceuticals and large companies are told not to use fax machines in hotel rooms because the lines are monitored, or send unencrypted email, etc. Laptops not only aren't allowed to be left unattended, most people in the know won't let sensitive information be left on them -- encrypted or not.

    Everyone acts like China invented industrial espionage. Well, they didn't... they're just really bad at it, which is why everyone is noticing them. First rule of effective espionage: Don't suck.

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  4. Re:Competing interests by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I used to work for Ericsson, now I work for Alcatel-Lucent, both at US offices, but not US companies. One of the things we've noticed is anywhere one of those two companies opens an office, shortly after, huawei opens an office within 10 miles. I swear it's true. Right now I'm sitting less than 5 miles from one of their office, at my old office, the story was the same, and remember the ericsson and alcatel offices are only 50 miles away from eachother, yet huawei has two, one close to ericsson, one close to alcatel. We started keeping track once we noticed at first. When at Ericsson, we'd always laugh that when we published our roadmap, 2 days later huawei would publish theirs, and it'd look similar so we started screwing with our roadmaps. I understand that in slashdot it's popular to go "ohhh evil amerika!!!!!!!!!!! they do it two!!!!!" but really, the behavior of chinese companies is more than a little suspect.