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NSA Hacked Huawei, Stole Source Code

Posted by timothy on from the whose-line-is-it-anyway dept.

Charliemopps (1157495) writes "New documents from Snowden indicate that the NSA hacked into and stole documents, including source code, from the Chinese networking firm Huawei. Ironically, this is the same firm that the U.S. government has argued in the past was a threat due to China's possible use of the same sort of attacks."

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  1. The jokes on you NSA by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 4, Informative

    Huawei had stolen the code from Cisco. So it is no big loss for them. They are laughing at NSA for not getting the source from the source.

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  2. Re:Personal Liberty! by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 5, Informative

    Snowden isn't releasing anything. He just dumped what he had on some journalists; they are the ones doing these slow staged releases.

  3. Re:No irony by pathological+liar · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your theory has one fatal flaw.

  4. Re:Personal Liberty! by erikkemperman · · Score: 4, Informative

    American companies have been hurt to the tune of billions of dollars. US intelligent efforts overseas have been crippled.

    And before they profited to the tune of billions thanks to trade secrets that just happened to find their way from NSA into their spotless hands.

    I understand your point about the difference of revealing domestic vs foreign spying, but even the latter category of leaks has demonstrated that NSA are operating way beyond it's stated purpose (which is security not economic superiority) at a huge cost to US taxpayers. In other words, still bona fide whistleblowing as far as I'm concerned.

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