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Huawei Fires Employee Arrested In Poland Over Alleged Spying (engadget.com)

Chinese tech giant Huawei has fired Weijing Wang, an employee recently arrested in Poland over spying allegations despite security officials saying the espionage wasn't directly tied to the company. The staffer brought the company into "disrepute," according to a statement. Police also arrested a Polish citizen in connection to the case. Engadget reports: The incident comes at a particularly bad time for Huawei. On top of general distrust sparked by Western governments and intelligence agencies, CFO Wangzhou Meng is facing extradition to the U.S. over accusations she helped avoid sanctions. People are already suspicious, and the arrest doesn't do the company any favors.

Moreover, there are already potential consequences. Polish internal affairs minister Joachim Brudzinski has asked the European Union and NATO to coordinate any potential bans on Huawei gear. While Poland is still willing to work with China, the official wanted countries to clarify their stances. There's already been talk of reviewing Huawei's involvement in Poland's 5G network, and this might exacerbate the situation.

39 comments

  1. This tape will self destruct in 5 seconds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Good morning Mister Sum Ting Wong, you've been disavowed...

    1. Re:This tape will self destruct in 5 seconds by beavhd · · Score: 0

      When I was an intern 30 years ago, the other "intern" (aka neckbeard secretary) next to me was annoyed with being assigned the task of stapling together mounds of documents, and kept saying "Staple self destruct in 5 seconds" and slammed the stapler as hard as he could. Everyone heard him and knew what was going on, and even the VP in the area just ignored it. Passive aggressive trolling the passive aggressive troll by ignoring the trolling is trolling.

      -beav

  2. Way way to go by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Collateral damage.

    1. Re: Way way to go by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Is this on Hulu? Otherwise I dont care.

  3. Electronic spying: state and corporate. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Let's face it, our electronic devices are going to spy on us whether for state spying or corporate to get information on us to sell us shit or to manipulate us into voting against our own interests.

    Just look at all those people who were manipulated into voting for Trump and now they're getting it up the ass. Right farmers and rust-belt people?!

    1. Re: Electronic spying: state and corporate. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh gosh why do they always say things like we are stilll open to irking with China?why donâ(TM)t they just wait until everything settles and say these kinds of things?

    2. Re: Electronic spying: state and corporate. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why don't they just stop irking us with their iPhones?

    3. Re: Electronic spying: state and corporate. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

      People voted for Trump because Hillary was worse. Why is it so hard for you to figure that out? Not too mention people wanted to shake up the government a bit.

      Next time, put up a better candidate.

      -geekpoet

    4. Re: Electronic spying: state and corporate. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The people voted for Hillary.

      I was in the minority who voted for Trump.

    5. Re: Electronic spying: state and corporate. by Plumpaquatsch · · Score: 1

      People voted for Trump because Hillary was worse.

      Even if (big if) - like he said they still get butt fucked. Maybe vote Jill Stein next time.

      --
      Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
  4. That's funny by DaMattster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The firing of the Huawei Vice President shows that the company is trying to save face and fully knows about (and even condones) what this person was doing. It just goes to show that even Chinese companies will sell out their own.

    1. Re: That's funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thats sooooo smart and funny! Oops did I harass you?

    2. Re:That's funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And it goes to show that governments were perfectly correct in not trusting this company.

    3. Re:That's funny by AlwinBarni · · Score: 1

      Not sure if the article mentions this, but this fired Huawei employee is a former China consulate employee - how odd.

    4. Re:That's funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In connection to this they have also apprehended a person from Orange Poland who used to work for one of the Polish intelligence agencies. The thing is gotta be really interesting.

  5. I Spy by goombah99 · · Score: 1

    the remake is Who I Spy

    --
    Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
    1. Re: I Spy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Selective enforcement

  6. No it's pronounced by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Wha' Way Wi-Spy

    1. Re:No it's pronounced by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's pronounced "hwa-way", not "wha-way" or "wah-way".

  7. Queue Mission Impossible #1 intro &... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Queue Mission Impossible #1 intro & scene @ position 2:56 "Did we get him?" "We got him..." FROM https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    * :)

    (... which I've been making into a Linux screensaver, slowly but surely...)

    APK

    P.S.=> LOL - it's the tune I wake up to as my alarm everyday... apk

  8. Hey look, CHINA APOLOGIST FAGGOTS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I GUESS YOU BITCHES WERE WRONG AGAIN, huh "hackingbear" Ivan you nutless little pud?

    1. Re:Hey look, CHINA APOLOGIST FAGGOTS! by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 1

      Why is it the CIA sock puppets are so obsessed with calling people gay? I mean, that hasn't been an insult since the 80's? Is this a fifty-year old spook with sexual identity issues?

      --
      My God, it's Full of Source!
      OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
  9. Re:Polish vassals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Attention retarded China apologist - stop squinting and open your eyes, Chinese Communist-owned companies spy around the world you RIDICULOUS FAGGOT.

  10. difference between them.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    the polish worker was an expendable grunt, while the one canada apprehended on behalf of the u.s. is a rich-as-fuck executive and corporate princess (daughter of the chinese military engineer who founded the company, who is expected to one day run the company).

    even in china... especially in china... money is power.

  11. Of course he got fired. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He got caught!
    If he had been successful he probably would have been promoted.

  12. cia world factbook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/pl.html

    "Disputes - international: This entry includes a wide variety of situations that range from traditional bilateral boundary disputes to unilateral claims of one sort or another. Information regarding disputes over international terrestrial and maritime boundaries has been reviewed by the US Department of State. References to other situations involving borders or frontiers may also be included, such as resource disputes, geopolitical questions, or irredentist issues; however, inclusion does not necessarily constitute . . . more Disputes - international field listing as a member state that forms part of the EU's external border, Poland has implemented the strict Schengen border rules to restrict illegal immigration and trade along its eastern borders with Belarus and Ukraine

    Refugees and internally displaced persons: This entry includes those persons residing in a country as refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), or stateless persons. Each country's refugee entry includes only countries of origin that are the source of refugee populations of 5,000 or more. The definition of a refugee according to a UN Convention is "a person who is outside his/her country of nationality or habitual residence; has a well-founded fear of persecution because of his/her race, religion, nationality, membership in a . . . more Refugees and internally displaced persons field listing refugees (country of origin): 71,302 applicants for forms of legal stay other than asylum (Ukraine) (2015), 9,950 (Russia) (2017)
    stateless persons: 10,825 (2017)

    Illicit drugs: This entry gives information on the five categories of illicit drugs - narcotics, stimulants, depressants (sedatives), hallucinogens, and cannabis. These categories include many drugs legally produced and prescribed by doctors as well as those illegally produced and sold outside of medical channels. Cannabis (Cannabis sativa) is the common hemp plant, which provides hallucinogens with some sedative properties, and includes marijuana (pot, Acapulco gold, grass, reefer), tetrahydroca . . . more Illicit drugs field listing despite diligent counternarcotics measures and international information sharing on cross-border crimes, a major illicit producer of synthetic drugs for the international market; minor transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and Latin American cocaine to Western Europe"

    1. Re:cia world factbook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Little known fact that if anyone would be trusted when it comes to these things, it would be CIA. I mean who else has such a squeaky clean sheet and rep and no agenda?

  13. Re:Polish vassals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Stop eating, turn the TV off, and go outside. Your view of the world is clearly given to you by the TV. And if you see yellow spies and green men everywhere you look, you should also see a doctor.

  14. Re:Polish vassals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Historically, Poland was the most US-pro country in Europe. Even during communism era this country was flooded with American culture.
    When Israel was created core of citizens arrived from Poland.
    This might explain why these countries have such strong ties.

  15. Re:Polish vassals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When you get disappeared and tortured in a Chinese prison, I'll listen to your faggot ass for the first time, because that will be the first time you know anything about China. I don't have a TV. Clearly you're a faggot apologist.

  16. Re: You're a moronic traitor apologist geek puta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Shitstained Californians voted for Hillary.

    Unfortunately for them, you can't hope and change away the fact that there has never been such a thing as a "popular" vote for the office of President.

    Be of good cheer, AIDS-bearers, our system works and is what's keeping the rest of the country from eliminating you in a storm of smart munitions. Everyone wins!

  17. Re: You're a moronic traitor apologist geek puta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Actually? More people voted for Hillary US-wide. The government has been undermined by Vladimir Putin who colluded with Drumpftard, and his entire family will die in prison. FTFY, next time don't support a traitor.

    Trump will hang. Mueller is going to have inmates going tag-team on Don Jr.'s asshole until he dies there.

    You're no poet, moron, you're a treasonous faggot bitch and you should hang with the coward.

  18. Re:Polish vassals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Oh, as a dumb American proudly standing by the CIA-run torture prisons in the Middle East and Poland during the last 15 years, you're in no position to mouth off. Also, any proof of those Chinese torture prisons? Thought so.

  19. EVEN Chinese companies? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The firing of the Huawei Vice President shows that the company is trying to save face and fully knows about (and even condones) what this person was doing. It just goes to show that even Chinese companies will sell out their own.

    Because the Chinese are... what? Or companies are... what? I cannot understand why this is some revelation or anything unusual.

    Or am I missing some sarcasm or irony?

  20. Fired because they got caught! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They were fired because they got caught. Its a lesson to all the others, if you want to keep your job, don't get caught spying! I remember the 'problems' that came up with computers made by Supermicro. Sure the design comes out of California, and the manufacturing plant is in Taiwan, its just that the subcontractors are sometimes in China. And those motherboards have extra chips. The chips are very small and almost look like surface mount capacitors. But they send data on the computer to hard coded ip addresses on the internet. Some of the chips were so small they were laminated between layers on the motherboard. They were all made in China (not Taiwan, but the PRC). And so we have Huawei. Translated, Huawei literally means "For China". (OK, its actually "China For" or ). Go ahead, try Google translate. Side by side, its Huawei, on seperate lines its China For.

  21. Yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It can't be that many people didn't like the Ballot Stuffing of Hillary and her DNC chummies to kick out Bernie Sanders.

  22. Sure Commies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You cannot play by generally accepted rules. You want to change them in case you lose. You generally want to bend the rules to fit your purposes. In the process you will kill dozens of millions of people. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot - more evil than Hitler by a multiplier of 5 or so. Look it up.

    Communism - a shitty ideology the Banksters invented and wheel out whenever they have bankrupted one of their host nations.