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The connection to Huawei seems very tenuous. Is there any evidence of Huawei hacking Nortel? The link you shared is just an allegation of Chinese hacking.

1996 8y ago
It's just a Chinese company, and all the Chinese companies seems to be put in the same basket by canadians.
- lovich 8y ago
  China is objectively not playing by the same rules as the west currently. Chinese Nationals have been caught stealing tech multiple times. I worked at a company where an intern from china was caught trying to steal the entire database but failed only because our infrastructure was so shitty that it crashed when trying to export everything. It was just quietly swept under the rug because any sort of retaliation would have led to losing access to the Chinese market since the intern was a relative of some government official. These sort of behaviors make people angry. Not to say that no one else has acted like this. The United States stole/forced the UK and other European powers to give over IP back when we were the rising star in the global market
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Hasknewbie 8y ago
Huawei have a rep for being IP thieves. They once were sued by Cisco for having software so "accidentally" similar, it had the same bugs... https://www.cnet.com/news/huawei-admits-to-a-little-copying/ https://www.cnet.com/news/huawei-admits-to-a-little-copying/
djrogers 8y ago
A company I worked for was acquired by a huawei partner, and within a couple of months Huawei was selling a complete hardware and software copy of our product. GPs story definitely rings true.
- Evidlo 8y ago
  If the company was acquired by a Huawei partner, doesn't that mean the reproduction was legitimate in this case?
  - djrogers 8y ago
    No, why would it be? It wasn’t produced by the partner, and was never authorized to be copied by anyone. It was straight up copied - source code and all - by Hauwei after their partner got access to our SVN repos.
    - random314 8y ago
      Why wasn't Huawei sued? I would assume that Huawei acquired the code and design legally if there was no lawsuit.
- unmole 8y ago
  Wait, if the company was acquired by a Huawei proxy, how is that same as whatever GP is insinuating? Full disclosure: I work for Huawei; I am not paid to shill; I am not Chinese.
  - forapurpose 8y ago
    > I am not Chinese I'm not criticizing the parent, but it should never need to be said. Nobody here should be judged based on their ethnicity or country.
- __sr__ 8y ago
  Wait, if Huawei Partner acquired the company, doesn’t it mean they got the rights to its IP? Isn’t that often the sole point of acquision? Or did I misread something?

1996 8y ago

It's just a Chinese company, and all the Chinese companies seems to be put in the same basket by canadians.

lovich 8y ago
China is objectively not playing by the same rules as the west currently. Chinese Nationals have been caught stealing tech multiple times. I worked at a company where an intern from china was caught trying to steal the entire database but failed only because our infrastructure was so shitty that it crashed when trying to export everything. It was just quietly swept under the rug because any sort of retaliation would have led to losing access to the Chinese market since the intern was a relative of some government official. These sort of behaviors make people angry. Not to say that no one else has acted like this. The United States stole/forced the UK and other European powers to give over IP back when we were the rising star in the global market
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Hasknewbie 8y ago

Huawei have a rep for being IP thieves. They once were sued by Cisco for having software so "accidentally" similar, it had the same bugs... https://www.cnet.com/news/huawei-admits-to-a-little-copying/ https://www.cnet.com/news/huawei-admits-to-a-little-copying/

djrogers 8y ago

A company I worked for was acquired by a huawei partner, and within a couple of months Huawei was selling a complete hardware and software copy of our product. GPs story definitely rings true.

Evidlo 8y ago
If the company was acquired by a Huawei partner, doesn't that mean the reproduction was legitimate in this case?
- djrogers 8y ago
  No, why would it be? It wasn’t produced by the partner, and was never authorized to be copied by anyone. It was straight up copied - source code and all - by Hauwei after their partner got access to our SVN repos.
  - random314 8y ago
    Why wasn't Huawei sued? I would assume that Huawei acquired the code and design legally if there was no lawsuit.
unmole 8y ago
Wait, if the company was acquired by a Huawei proxy, how is that same as whatever GP is insinuating? Full disclosure: I work for Huawei; I am not paid to shill; I am not Chinese.
- forapurpose 8y ago
  > I am not Chinese I'm not criticizing the parent, but it should never need to be said. Nobody here should be judged based on their ethnicity or country.
__sr__ 8y ago
Wait, if Huawei Partner acquired the company, doesn’t it mean they got the rights to its IP? Isn’t that often the sole point of acquision? Or did I misread something?