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Polish Police Arrest Huawei Executive On Suspicion Of Spying For China (npr.org)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the growing-tension dept.

A Huawei executive has been arrested in Poland on charges of spying for China, Poland's counterintelligence service said Friday. NPR reports: A government spokesman identified the suspect as Weijing W.; media reports in Poland and China say he also is known as Stanislaw Wang, Huawei's sales director in Poland. In a coordinated arrest Tuesday, authorities also detained and charged a Polish citizen named Piotr D. who works for the telecom company Orange Polska. He is a former Internal Security Agency official, according to Poland's TVP Info, which first reported the story. Police searched both of the suspects' homes Tuesday. In addition, TVP Info says, Internal Security Agency officers searched Huawei's headquarters in Poland and an Orange office where Piotr D. worked. The government has evidence that the two suspects "cooperated with the Chinese services" as they conducted espionage against Poland, according to Stanislaw Zaryn, spokesman for the special services branch, in a tweet about the case.

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  1. Again? by rmdingler · · Score: 2
    Mostl reasonably advanced nations use (and misuse) cozy relationships with domestic corporations to advance the agendas of their homegrown information gathering services.

    Still, those with totalitarian powers are much more ripe for pervasive abuse.

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    1. Re:Again? by DaMattster · · Score: 1

      This kind of provides confirmation bias that the Canadian arrest and detainment of the Huawei exec probably wasn't unfounded.

    2. Re:Again? by Chas · · Score: 1

      And they're now tying Huawei to a bunch of front companies in sanctioned nations in the Middle East.

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    3. Re:Again? by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      The Canadian arrest (really a US arrest by international treaty) was for fraud related to evading Iran sanctions. I have little doubt that the fraud was real, but the sanctions are a stupid Trumpism, which doesn't excuse it but certainly colors the situation. This is very different from spying, which is not to say that Huawei doesn't do it, just that this case has nothing to do with it.

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  2. Another vassal; anything to slow HUAWEI... by bogaboga · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Polish Police Arrest Huawei Executive On Suspicion Of Spying For China

    They are trying everything to slow down Huawei. They will fail in my opinion as Huawei is a major 5G patent holder.

    1. Re:Another vassal; anything to slow HUAWEI... by Galactic+Dominator · · Score: 1

      Maybe Huawei can patent butt smuggling phones into prison.

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    2. Re:Another vassal; anything to slow HUAWEI... by mentil · · Score: 1

      The US could decide to nullify some/all of Huawei's patents. Bonus points if 'first to file' is blamed for allowing stolen tech to be patented out from under the inventors.
      Other countries would need to follow suit for it to have much market impact though.

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    3. Re:Another vassal; anything to slow HUAWEI... by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Polish Police Arrest Huawei Executive On Suspicion Of Spying For China

      They are trying everything to slow down Huawei. They will fail in my opinion as Huawei is a major 5G patent holder.

      Hmm, an alternative possibility is that they have "evidence that the two suspects "cooperated with the Chinese services" as they conducted espionage against Poland" and it's legit.

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    4. Re:Another vassal; anything to slow HUAWEI... by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      They will fail in my opinion as Huawei is a major 5G patent holder.

      Countries don't license patents, companies do. You'll find in the world Huawei won't be able to get on without working together with the likes of Vodafone and other telecom companies, and they will be hard pressed getting a patent agreement that says: "Products not allowed to be used in country X"

    5. Re:Another vassal; anything to slow HUAWEI... by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      Ideally, Huawei will learn that smartphone profits are worth way more than espionage and that they should not risk the former by engaging in the latter. I know, I'm a misty eyed idealist, but it could happen.

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  3. Re:More hostages are needed to get trade consessio by alvinrod · · Score: 1

    Are we going to bring back the coalition of the willing again?

  4. Re:More hostages are needed to get trade consessio by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 1

    It needed to be said. I bet they were sure kidnapping The Princess would get them router back doors.

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  5. Such BS from Slashdot users. by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 1

    Everytime it comes to Russia or China, there is always a group of people who seem to equivocate the actions of the US with that country. However, this is a distinct difference: the US is not a dictatorship. Coincidentally, these are the same people who defend the US President which is a wannabe dictator. I wish they would just declare that they don't believe in democracy and they want the US to be a dictatorship too because there really is no other logical explanation for their behavior.

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    1. Re:Such BS from Slashdot users. by ZombieCatInABox · · Score: 1

      They're obviously chineese or russians paid shills, or simply trolls, that's all. You know, the same kind of shills that create facebook pages for fake supposedly american organizations, one anti and one pro immigration, and organize opposing demonstrations on the same day, at the same time, and in the same city.

    2. Re:Such BS from Slashdot users. by ZombieCatInABox · · Score: 1

      Plot twist. Neither China nor Russia are dictatorships.

      TDS tends to blind people from logic. That is one of the symptoms.

      Oh, the irony...

      So, how much does it pay these days being an internet shill ? Or are you simply a troll ? Because you can't possibly actually believe all the bullshit you're saying.

      China isn't a democracy simply because it says "democratic" in its official name. And Russia ? Not a dictatorship ? Try to run against Putin in the next election. If by chance you happen to represent a significant threat, you'll quickly end-up in prison on some bogus "fraud" charge, or worse, dead from Polonium 210 poisoning.

      But why am I wasting my time telling you all this. You're obviously a troll, or a cowardly, worthless paid shill. Or maybe a 10 year old who just parrots what his parents tell him, and also believes that the WWF is real.

  6. Opportunists by spinitch · · Score: 1

    Greed abounds. The large Chinese population and Huawei large Corp with many advanced technical staff will unsurprisingly lead to a few falling into temptation. The broader challenge since this confronts Western Coâ(TM)s To is governance. Reason SO-X , Federal sentencing guidelines etc.. to put more pressure on leaders to have a system to Deter and detect improprieties. Interesting revelations going on with Nissan ( governance). Toshiba showed much worse governance. At least Nissan did not inflate profits. Tepco down played tsunami warnings coz of greed.... to name a few. Enron.

  7. I always LOL @ "paid shills" claims by guacamole · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone pay any shills to post on a pathetic useless site like this one is beyond me (sorry Slashdot owners, but you have reached your limits of growth long time ago).

  8. Stanislaw Wang - Deep under cover in Poland by Ferocitus · · Score: 1

    How long did it take them to work out that Stanislaw Wang might not be Polish?

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  9. Re: Spying on... Poland? What? Why? Makes no sense by unrealmp3 · · Score: 1

    They're leaders in a lucrative market mostly because of corporate spying on Nortel.