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Huawei CEO Says Company Doesn't Spy For China and Praises Trump in Rare Appearance (cnbc.com)
Huawei would never allow China's government to access customer data, even if Beijing requested it, the CEO and founder of the company repeatedly emphasized Tuesday, amid continued political pressure on the Chinese technology giant. From a report: In a rare sit down with international media, Ren Zhengfei addressed concerns raised by the U.S. government, which has warned that the company's equipment could allow the Chinese government to have a backdoor into a nation's telecommunications network. Ren, speaking Mandarin and using a company-provided translator, told the group that Huawei has never handed data to Beijing. "When it comes to cybersecurity and privacy protection we are committed to be sided with our customers. We will never harm any nation or any individual," Ren told the journalists assembled at Huawei's headquarters in Shenzhen, China.
"China's ministry of foreign affairs has officially clarified that no law in China requires any company to install mandatory back doors. Huawei and me personally have never received any request from any government to provide improper information," Ren added. [...] But Ren actually praised the U.S. president. "For President Trump as a person, I still believe he is a great president," he said. "In the sense that he was bold to slash taxes. And I think that's conducive for the development of industries in the United States."
"China's ministry of foreign affairs has officially clarified that no law in China requires any company to install mandatory back doors. Huawei and me personally have never received any request from any government to provide improper information," Ren added. [...] But Ren actually praised the U.S. president. "For President Trump as a person, I still believe he is a great president," he said. "In the sense that he was bold to slash taxes. And I think that's conducive for the development of industries in the United States."
After the way China has chosen to treat Canadians over there I don't need Trump to encourage North America to stop consuming Chinese goods. I can do that myself.
Wow he figured it out that if you praise Trump, you get favorable treatment from him and his administration!
I will buy Huawei products only!
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They're not dumb. They're appealing to Trump's pride, which is the smart move. He seems to be motivated by being lauded. Will be interesting to see if he moves in their direction after they've sung his praises.
Everyone knows the way to get what you want from Trump is to pander to his insecurities and praise him.
Turkey almost got to massacre the Kurds on that basis for example.
From the CEO of Huawei. "I still love my country, I support the Communist party, but I will never do anything to harm any country in the world..."
Fuck communism (it's evil), and fuck Huawei!
Life is not for the lazy.
in the USA many companies are required to hand over your data.. and have done so ...
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Flatter ruler, maybe get woman freed. 1000 ships stay docked.
I think the chinese have enough hackers to break into anything, even if there aren't back doors. If you analyze the microchip layout under execution, you can flip bits either way (as MIT has shown), even if the programming is perfect (which it never is, "machine code" and what it actually is translated to are different things)
Btw: some FOSS news. You know, news for nerds...
https://slashdot.org/submission/9087542/author-recinds-gpl
Ren, speaking Mandarin and using a company-provided translator, told the group that Huawei has never handed data to Beijing.
That's silly. Beijing is a city and can't speak. Now various intelligence/government agencies are a different story.
When it comes to cybersecurity and privacy protection we are committed to be sided with our customers.
This could go several ways. First, I'm guessing that the Chinese government is one of, if not their biggest customer. Second, Sided with what? Vinyl, aluminum, brick, stucco...
We will never harm any nation or any individual,
Of course not. Huawei is not a military, they are a company. Besides, information wants to be free (to flow into China).
China's ministry of foreign affairs has officially clarified that no law in China requires any company to install mandatory back doors.
Neither did the NSA. But, you know, if they are there they should share this information with intelligence agencies.
"Huawei and me personally have never received any request from any government to provide improper information," Ren added
Define "improper information".
Ren actually praised the U.S. president. "For President Trump as a person, I still believe he is a great president," he said. "In the sense that he was bold to slash taxes. And I think that's conducive for the development of industries in the United States."
I suspect if half of the US was on fire and the other half was under water he would still say something similar.
China's ministry of foreign affairs has officially clarified that no law in China requires any company to install mandatory back doors.
If they had such a law they wouldn't tell foreign governments about it as that would rather defeat the object.
Even if such a law exists, I'm far more concerned about the UK government spying on me than the Chinese. The Chinese are in no position to harm me while my own government might arrest me on some random charge of hate speech, which these days is basically anything, and after the UK signed the UN Migration packed, objecting to mass migration can now even be criminalised. Or maybe they might lock me up for extreme pornography, where you can be imprisoned for three years for possessing porn containing simulations (drawn, computer generated, acted) of rape, sexual acts with animals (furry), sexual acts with minors, sexual acts that could cause injury (bondage) and a variety of other stuff. The Chinese government aren't going to arrest me for these things, so if I'm being spied on I'll take the Chinese over the Five Eyes.
If I were living in China I'd probably choose a foreign phone over a Chinese one, for the exact same reasons, but if I'm not in China I'm more than happy to use my Xiaomi. That said, if I were running a company with an innovative product I may think twice about what I communicate with my Chinese phone, since industrial espionage does seem to be a real issue.
His "specialist advisors" raised unemployment, massively increased food stamp usage, significantly increased medical insurance costs, and raised unemployment greatly when they were "specialist advisors" to Obama.
These same people killed by thousands with drone strikes in the Middle East, and we are learning the large majority of those killings were the wrong targets.
These same people started wars in: Libya, Yemen, Syria, in addition to the neverending one in Iraq. They also told coal workers, steel workers, manufacturer workers to fuck off and shut up and die.
Trump reverses all that, and he is the bad guy here?
Only to a progressive is a government worker getting a check a few weeks late a complete disaster, but steel workers losing their jobs forever due to bad Federal policy acceptable and encouraged. What a jerk.
lols. You are evil.
scenario: china spies on you and builds up a huge profile about you, passively even. a friendly five eyes breaks into their shitty commie network looking for whatever they can get, and your stuff gets copied in the process.
oops! now your government knows you like piss play, or god knows what else you're terrified of them knowing.
this kind of logic you gave is bad in general. the best option is simply not to be spied on in the first place. privacy laws need to be enforced better, and new ones made where they are insufficient
but what do I know? I'm just a guy on the internet
My concern is that one may not worry about a foreign government spying, but that info can be easily sold to criminal organizations that can directly affect me. For example, if I know Lower Elbonian intel owns my phone, I may have little worries directly, as I may never set foot on their soil. However, the intel can be sold to competitors, or even criminal organizations. Come the next recession, I wouldn't be surprised to see collaboration/collusion between organizations who glean data and gangs to find when people are a way to time burglaries/home invasions.
At least if my government spies on me, they are far less likely to sell that info to a party that can actually do amage, as opposed to a foreign government whose interest may be causing other countrys' citizens harm, just for kicks.
See title.
So I can laugh in their face.
They have absolutely no say in the matter.. NONE. And when the CCP controls the cell phone companies, listening in on your calls is not even a second though.
Can people really be THIS stupid????
Release the wu mao's!!!!
"Huawei would never allow China's government to access customer data, even if Beijing requested it"
HAHHAA right... since Huawei is 51% owned by Beijing (like every other Chinese corporation must be), I find that very hard to believe.
.."even if Beijing requested it".
So far as I know... they do not "request" anything. They tell you to do it, and you do it. Unless you are keen to see family members vanish.
Murder isn't retaliation, it's trying to start a war.
This is one of those silent, unwritten, but well-known rule that if Beijing wants something, you comply, no questions asked. Or you wind up in a concentration camp building products out of Chinesium for us fat Yankees.
Irritating, I know, but what do you expect out of a country like that?
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
They all have their heads up their backsides. Corporations used the vast majority of their massive tax benefit to buy back stock. Expansion? Hiring? Hardly any.
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Background info: https://slashdot.org/submission/9087542/author-recinds-gpl
A) Adults don't do revenge.
B) Murder is not an appropriate form of retaliation
C) The timing of the arrest was an internal move to sabotage Trump
D) It's fairly obvious that your princess was blatantly committing bank fraud.
E) Obvious troll is obvious.
Only corrupt governments need flattery.
citation needed or else.
...that he did a pinky-swear, so it sounds legit.
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read this: PARTY. The country may be capitalistic, but the communist PARTY is STILL COMMUNIST son.
Oh, please.
"The Chinese are in no position to harm me" - The refrain of the retarded faggot sans clue.
That hasn't been determined yet in a court of law. Even the orange guy deserves "innocent until proven guilty".
Table-ized A.I.
Deciding to praise Trump comes with a price. If you don't believe it tell your coworkers Trump is a great president. You might get points with some and lose a ton of others, assuming your coworkers are mostly liberal.
So when you do it either because your customers are almost entirely conservatives, or you say it because you believe it.
So Obama is the one who crashed the US economy via banking deregulation? Buy a real history book, dude, not the Fox Edition. (Canada avoided much of the mortgage bubble slump by having sufficient regulations. It's also true that Bill Clinton, a Democrat, contributed to problematic banking dereg.)
And T uses drone strikes also.
Table-ized A.I.
$0.01 - A CEO of a chinese technology company saying they refuse to give data to the government is extremely ridiculous and obviously untrue. The Chinese government requires by law this, in at least other instances. For example, Tesla is required to have their cars over their constantly give data to the Chinese government or they're not allowed to be in the country.
$0.01 - Praising of Trump is good TR (Trump Relations). History has shown that Trump tends to favor people who praise him, as can be seen during the history of his Presidency and Candidacy with Putin, Kim Jon Un, etc.
He pretty much will play niceities with anyone who praises him. This could be a way of them trying to get Trump to play nicely with them.
- Alex
Assuming nothing has been lost in translation he could be technically not lying.
"Huawei has never handed data to Beijing" because the Chinese government will simply take any data they want.
"Huawei and me personally have never received any request from any government to provide improper information" because it will not be a request, it will be a demand.
Bottom line here is you don't get to be a big company in China unless you work properly with government.