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The Chinese Telecom That Spooks the World

Posted by samzenpus on from the trust-us dept.

wrekkuh writes "The Economist has printed an interesting look at the concerns and speculations of the fast-growing Chinese telecom giant Huawei, and its spread into western markets. Of particular concern is Huawei's state funding, and the company's founder, Ren Zhengfei, who once served as an engineer in the People's Liberation Army (PLA). However, another article from The Economist goes into greater detail about the steps Huawei has taken to mitigate some of these concerns in England — including co-operating with the GCHQ in Britain, the UK's signals-intelligence agency, to ensure equipment built by Huawei is not back-doored."

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  1. Re:Is that even possible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You compare the byte-code to Cisco's.

  2. Re:Is that even possible? by M0j0_j0j0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    But Cisco's have backdoors! i don't get it

  3. Better title by dszd0g · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Chinese Telecom That Spooks the Spooks

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  4. Re:Dear USA people: by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    from the comment you are responding to:

    You will see some responses to this comment of mine attempting to falsely equate Chinese authoritarian control of political opinion with various vile things the West does. Don't get me wrong: the West does plenty of evil things and there is plenty I criticize about my government. The difference is: they can express this political opinion of theirs freely, here in the West, and ironically, as they indulge false equivalency, they do not admit or do not know they would experience fear and intimidation if they tried to equally criticize Beijing, from within China.

    I myself disagree with those who falsely believe that the West is just as bad as China in regards to suppression of freedoms, but I fully support their right to spout their nonsense, unhindered by fear of government backlash.

    see how I inoculated my comment against yours?

    it's so easy to see you braindead false equivalency idiots coming a mile away. i'm sure you didn't even read my comment before formulating your useless mental vomit

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  5. Re:The reason by Rufty · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dan Quayle, is that you?

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