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US Conducted Secret Surveillance of China's Huawei, Prosecutors Say (reuters.com)
U.S. authorities gathered information about Huawei through secret surveillance that they plan to use in a case accusing the Chinese telecom equipment maker of sanctions-busting and bank fraud, prosecutors said on Thursday. From a report: Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex Solomon said at a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn that the evidence, obtained under the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), would require classified handling. The government notified Huawei in a court filing on Thursday of its intent to use the information, saying it was "obtained or derived from electronic surveillance and physical search," but gave no details. The United States has been pressuring other countries to drop Huawei from their cellular networks, worried its equipment could be used by Beijing for spying. The company says the concerns are unfounded. Brian Frey, a former federal prosecutor who is not involved in the Huawei case, said FISA surveillance, which requires a warrant from a special court, is generally sought in connection with suspected espionage.
Don't use Huawei equipment because it's opening you up to being spied upon! How do we know? Well, we spied upon Huawei of course. Wait... Where are you going?
Don't let China spy on you, let us do it instead.
While not surprising, clearly they have no sense of irony.
Damn this whole comment section is filled with pro US anti China propaganda. Da fuck is going on?
Your tax dollars at work.
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
King Solomon worshiped Satan. Read the book yourself if you don't believe me.
Meh, I'll bite since this is some creatively "out there" trolling. You seem to be unaware that the book you're referring to, which is fictitiously/falsely attributed to Solomon by its actual author, was written a millennium or more after Solomon's death in a language that didn't even exist at the time of his reign. If you actually read it, you should have noticed the readily apparent Greek influence (e.g. mythological, thematic, and linguistic) that should have been a dead giveaway that it came much later and wasn't something he authored.
But hey, if you think that book is historically accurate, I've got a few other historical accounts that might interest you and are of similar levels of historicity. They really provide some insight into the period conditions of their respective times and places.
On the plus side, today I learned a new word from that first link: pseudepigraphical.
The united states has the largest prison population in the world by a huge margin
The US can do domestic collection and the Foreign in Foreign Intelligence Surveillance.
Multitasking.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
The jobs of intelligence agencies is to keep us safe from foreign threats like China. For those who say, "oh how ironic" that is whataboutism because we're talking about China, an aggressive authoritarian nation with an awful humans right record (currently "re-educating" a million+ Muslims). If you are reading this then your country is likely either the US itself or a close ally of the US. Between trusting an ally and bellicose nation bent on expanding it's power at any cost, I will always opt for an ally.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
USA Intelligence doesn't aid US companies, unlike Chinese, France, Russian, Indian, Pakistani, Israeli, and most other countries intelligence services.
USA companies can sue the USGovt and often actually win their cases to NOT be forced to hand over personal data when they feel the request isn't specific enough or is outside US jurisdiction.
Have you ever, ever, ever, heard of a Chinese or Russian company doing the same? Hint. Nope.
When analysts in the USGovt intelligence services make a claim, outside any political pressures (which they wouldn't know about) unlike Colin Powell, I'd trust it.
We know the NSA hacked into Huawei over the last few years. It has been reported by multiple, reputable, news outlets.
What does that show us? That the US is good at hacking? Well, not really. It shows that Huawei is terrible at security, which is a very important consideration for any network infrastructure. It also means that the NSA was able to see internal documents on the Huawei corporate network which stated their policies and ongoing Chinese Govt requests for information world-wide. Over 20 Huawei employees have been caught performing espionage around the world. Sure, they have a corporate policy against this, but the Chinese govt has placed people inside Huawei in key roles to have access with overseas technology companies either as potential clients or on projects where they work together, cough, and steal the other companies ideas.
Huawei needs to be thrown out of all countries where fair competition is the rule.
Why is Huawei equipment so cheap? Because they have 20 yrs of technical debt and crap code. The UK audit of their code clearly showed that. What do they say? "Fast, Cheap, Good. Pick any 2."
Hint, with Huawei, you cannot pick "good."
What if. All of these china shill posts are actual chinese citizens trying to boost their social credit score.... I mean, its plausible.
I see the Prophet Solomon's (PBUH) name being brought up and falsely attributed to something which people have no knowledge about. Just to clear it up, this is the whole truth and nothing else. And when there cometh unto them a messenger from Allah, confirming that which they possess, a party of those who have received the Scripture fling the Scripture of Allah behind their backs as if they knew not, - Quran 2:101 And follow that which the devils falsely related against the kingdom of Solomon. Solomon disbelieved not; but the devils disbelieved, teaching mankind magic and that which was revealed to the two angels in Babel, Harut and Marut. Nor did they (the two angels) teach it to anyone till they had said: We are only a temptation, therefore disbelieve not (in the guidance of Allah). And from these two (angles) people learn that by which they cause division between man and wife; but they injure thereby no-one save by Allah's leave. And they learn that which harmeth them and profiteth them not. And surely they do know that he who trafficketh therein will have no (happy) portion in the Hereafter; and surely evil is the price for which they sell their souls, if they but knew. ~ Quran 2:102
I see the Prophet Solomon's (PBUH) name being brought up and falsely attributed to something which people have no knowledge about. Solomon never worshiped satan. Just to clear it up, this is the whole truth and nothing else.
And when there cometh unto them a messenger from Allah, confirming that which they possess, a party of those who have received the Scripture fling the Scripture of Allah behind their backs as if they knew not, - Quran 2:101
And follow that which the devils falsely related against the kingdom of Solomon. Solomon disbelieved not; but the devils disbelieved, teaching mankind magic and that which was revealed to the two angels in Babel, Harut and Marut. Nor did they (the two angels) teach it to anyone till they had said: We are only a temptation, therefore disbelieve not (in the guidance of Allah). And from these two (angles) people learn that by which they cause division between man and wife; but they injure thereby no-one save by Allah's leave. And they learn that which harmeth them and profiteth them not. And surely they do know that he who trafficketh therein will have no (happy) portion in the Hereafter; and surely evil is the price for which they sell their souls, if they but knew. ~ Quran 2:102