Australian Intelligence Knows Huawei Was Used in Espionage, Report Says (axios.com) 42
According to a report in The Australian, Australia received intelligence reports that Huawei personnel provided Chinese spies passwords to hack a "foreign network." From a report: Though there are many broad allegations that telecommunications equipment providers Huawei and ZTE sabotage products so that spies can conduct espionage, the public is largely in the dark about how and if the nation has ever used that capacity. The Australian report claims: "Chinese espionage services used telecommunications giant Huawei's staff to get access codes to infiltrate a foreign network." The attack took place within the last two years.
If Chinese spies are doing their job (Score:5, Insightful)
Of Chinese spies are even halfway doing their job, they'll be taking advantage of the fact that so many countries use so much gear made in China. They should be fired and may be executed if they aren't doing this.
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Of Chinese spies are even halfway doing their job, they'll be taking advantage of the fact that so many countries use so much gear made in China.
Like what... server motherboards? ;)
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... to hate democracy and welcome communism ... If you don't believe it, you're a moron.
Like these ones: https://www.dailykos.com/stori... [dailykos.com]
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I'm sure you'd get similar results from Democrats
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I'm sure you'd get similar results from Democrats
Still waiting (do not accept photoshopped ones) ...
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If Donald Trump were to make this kind of accusation, it would be dismissed out of hand
I think they'd check the facts first. And then dismiss it, because when Donald Trump says something like this, it's usually a lie. Because that's what he does. It's the safe assumption.
The truth is that the American media has been well-infiltrated by Chinese spies and is manipulating us to hate democracy
I think it's more Russia, but China also seems to be benefiting from the way right-wing media (not to mention right-wing politicians, obviously) are undermining democracy. Trump seems eager to hand power to Russia and China, and shake hands with North Korea.
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If Donald Trump were to make this kind of accusation, it would be dismissed out of hand [...]
Trump is such a low hangin' fruit, though. If Donald Trump opens his mouth we can be pretty certain by now that what he's going to say is some bullshit he's just made up in order to satisfy his pathologically narcissist ego and might later deny 100% despite direct evidence to the contrary, so it's a fairly reliable heuristic. To most people on earth some Australian Intelligence agency will be at least slightly more credible than Donald Trump.
who cares. cisco provides this service to anyone (Score:1)
at least huawei only did it for the chinese. cisco provides that service to anyone with hardcoded backdoors and whatnot..
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who cares
What time is over there in Beijing anyway? You've had a hard day of trolling the west. Get some sleep.
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Well ... (Score:5, Insightful)
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If one stops to think about the idea, it makes sense for a plutocracy that believes in a surveillance state to build spyware into the products its communications industry exports.
Not really. All good and well unless someone figures it out. Then *everyone* stops buying your products. You are out the surveillance and the profits.
They know that in basic capitalist economies, people look for the least expensive option to maximize the most amount of profit.
Except this: https://www.theverge.com/2018/... [theverge.com]
Huawei and ZTE technology will largely be banned from use by the US government and government contractors. The ban was signed into placed by President Trump today as a component of the much larger Defense Authorization Act.
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Re:And how would Australia possibly know?
By the backdoors it has in Chinese services perhaps?
Aussie == US (Score:3)
I'm a kiwi so may just be biased; it's tradition to sling mud over the ditch...
But we see Aussie in the US' back pocket... sort of a 51st state...
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That's okay, we see you as freeloaders. Haven't done much for regional security since 1966, though your SAS guys, though under-funded, under-manned and embarrassingly poorly equipped, kicked ass in the Helmland for the few weeks your parliament decided to live up to the ANZUS pact.
Title does not make sense. (Score:1)
"Australian Intelligence"? Isn't that an oxymoron?
All you chips are belong to us (Score:2)
US: WE GOT THE BEST TOYS!
China: We built the chips for your toys.
US: But ... WE GOT THE BEST TOYS!
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The best chips are still designed and made in the USA.
Anybody looking to cut corners with chinese garbage deserves what they get.