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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.

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  1. How ironic... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

    1. Re:How ironic... by supremebob · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I think that US just wants less people using the Huawei network equipment with the Chinese backdoors in it's firmware, and the Cisco network equipment with the NSA backdoors in it's firmware instead. It just makes things a bit easier for our various three letter intelligence agencies. I mean, the Chinese keep changing the passwords on their backdoors, and it's a pain to have to brute force them instead of just looking them up in USpyWiki...

  2. Usual Red Scare by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't let China spy on you, let us do it instead.

  3. Re:Hate? by Archtech · · Score: 2

    Damn this whole comment section is filled with pro US anti China propaganda. Da fuck is going on?

    Your tax dollars at work.

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  4. Re:Testament of Solomon by Anubis+IV · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  5. Re: Equating the two is moronic, not ironic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The united states has the largest prison population in the world by a huge margin

  6. It's legitimate. by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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