Worried About Trump iPhone Eavesdroppers? China Recommends a Huawei (reuters.com)

China's foreign ministry has some suggestions for the Trump administration if it is worried about foreign eavesdropping on the U.S. president's iPhones: use a Huawei handset instead. Or just cut all forms of modern communication with the outside world. From a report: The riposte came after the New York Times reported that American intelligence reports indicated that Chinese and Russian spies often listen in on President Donald Trump when he uses his Apple cellphones to chat with old friends. Aides have repeatedly told him that his cellphone calls are not secure, but although the president has been persuaded to use his secure White House landline more often, he has refused to give up the phones, the Times said. Trump called the Times report incorrect on Thursday, and dismissed it as "long and boring." "I only use Government Phones, and have only one seldom used government cell phone. Story is soooo wrong!" Trump wrote on Twitter. In a later tweet, he said, "I rarely use a cellphone, & when I do it's government authorized. I like Hard Lines. Just more made up Fake News!"

Comments

Re:So what?

[Anonymous Coward]

So he uses it to talk to Putin. Got it.

I think this was mistranslated

[sinij]

I think what China said was mistranslated. They intended to say that if Trump wanted to make sure that China could eavesdrop, then he should have went with a Huawei phone.

Re:Consider the source

[Registered Coward v2]

China, being one of the largest sources of spying threats, recommends a specific phone. That they happen to make. They assure us that they can evesdrop on every other phone, except the one designed & made in their country, with no outside audits.

Sure. We'll get right on that.

Next thing you know they'll offer to give us this big, beautiful horse statue to put on the White House lawn...