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I'd be curious to know if Huawei phones and network devices are currently being used for surveillance in Hong Kong.
by beloch 7y ago
I'd be curious to know if Huawei phones and network devices are currently being used for surveillance in Hong Kong.
- boomboomsubban 7y agoYes? Surveillance is common worldwide and Huawei is a popular brand in the region. I'm guessing you're curious if the Chinese government is using some hidden backdoor in Huawei products to spy on Hong Kong residents who would otherwise be acting privately.
- geowwy 7y agoIt's safest to assume all your consumer tech is being used by at least 1 major government to surveil you.
- fluffything 7y agoProbably. Snowden showed that every phone in the USA is used for surveillance by the NSA. I don't have any reason to expect China to be any different.
- sebastianconcpt 7y agoExactly. Yet I found NSA surveillance INFINITELY less dangerous than China's.
- downrightmike 7y agoA large part of that is the oversight panel that is in charge of looking at the program has publicly acknowledged that the programs are not finding anything. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nsa-program-stopped-no-terror-attacks-says-white-house-panel-flna2D11783588 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nsa-program-stopped-no-te...
- babayega2 7y agoAs a US citizen maybe. But you know a lot of countries all over the world have more suffered under the US influence than that of China?
- diffeomorphism 7y agoFor surveillance in the open very probably, e.g. the UK bought Huawei equipment for that purpose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kingdom#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kin... Backdoors in the phones seems highly unlikely. Considering that the government can simply listen in at the cell towers and data centers there is no reason to risk the reputation and thus influence and reach of a Chinese company like that.