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Australian Intelligence Knows Huawei Was Used in Espionage, Report Says (axios.com)
According to a report in The Australian, Australia received intelligence reports that Huawei personnel provided Chinese spies passwords to hack a "foreign network." From a report: Though there are many broad allegations that telecommunications equipment providers Huawei and ZTE sabotage products so that spies can conduct espionage, the public is largely in the dark about how and if the nation has ever used that capacity. The Australian report claims: "Chinese espionage services used telecommunications giant Huawei's staff to get access codes to infiltrate a foreign network." The attack took place within the last two years.
Of Chinese spies are even halfway doing their job, they'll be taking advantage of the fact that so many countries use so much gear made in China. They should be fired and may be executed if they aren't doing this.
at least huawei only did it for the chinese. cisco provides that service to anyone with hardcoded backdoors and whatnot..
U use routing by Cisco, so this could never happen to me. Sales person told me so.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
If one stops to think about the idea, it makes sense for a plutocracy that believes in a surveillance state to build spyware into the products its communications industry exports. If I were a ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party, I would definitely be advocating for this to further my agenda because so many western countries are scrambling for telecommunications hardware being made by the two biggest Chinese networking gear manufacturers Huawei and ZTE. It's simple really: make it monetarily attractive to go with something other than Cisco while secretly incorporating spyware and backdoors into routing and switching products while delaying, obstructing, and obfuscating. Unlike a lot of theories and accusations, this one isn't of the tin foil variety. The Chinese Communist Party is actually being commendably (sic) creative about the entire affair. They know that in basic capitalist economies, people look for the least expensive option to maximize the most amount of profit. So they may subsidize ZTE and Huawei allowing the two behemoths to sell their networking gear at (maybe?) less than cost if they include backdoors. Western government and industry gobbles this cheaper alternative up and the Chinese plutocracy can then just siphon off government, trade, and industry secrets.
... to hate democracy and welcome communism ... If you don't believe it, you're a moron.
Like these ones: https://www.dailykos.com/stori...
If Donald Trump were to make this kind of accusation, it would be dismissed out of hand
I think they'd check the facts first. And then dismiss it, because when Donald Trump says something like this, it's usually a lie. Because that's what he does. It's the safe assumption.
The truth is that the American media has been well-infiltrated by Chinese spies and is manipulating us to hate democracy
I think it's more Russia, but China also seems to be benefiting from the way right-wing media (not to mention right-wing politicians, obviously) are undermining democracy. Trump seems eager to hand power to Russia and China, and shake hands with North Korea.
Re:And how would Australia possibly know?
By the backdoors it has in Chinese services perhaps?
If Donald Trump were to make this kind of accusation, it would be dismissed out of hand [...]
Trump is such a low hangin' fruit, though. If Donald Trump opens his mouth we can be pretty certain by now that what he's going to say is some bullshit he's just made up in order to satisfy his pathologically narcissist ego and might later deny 100% despite direct evidence to the contrary, so it's a fairly reliable heuristic. To most people on earth some Australian Intelligence agency will be at least slightly more credible than Donald Trump.
I'm a kiwi so may just be biased; it's tradition to sling mud over the ditch...
But we see Aussie in the US' back pocket... sort of a 51st state...
I'm sure you'd get similar results from Democrats
US: WE GOT THE BEST TOYS!
China: We built the chips for your toys.
US: But ... WE GOT THE BEST TOYS!
who cares
What time is over there in Beijing anyway? You've had a hard day of trolling the west. Get some sleep.
I'm sure you'd get similar results from Democrats
Still waiting (do not accept photoshopped ones) ...