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Was there an article in there? Seems like there's only an insinuation of a possibility of a fan fiction story there.

• swinglock 5y ago
  The title of the article doesn't match the content. The article says it's possible they could have eavesdropped because they have access, but not that they did.
  • akvadrako 5y ago
    It does say Huawei also knew which numbers were tapped by police and intelligence services. If that's true it's bad enough. But it sounds like they are just saying Huawei engineers had access to the internal network at certain times for debugging purposes. Which is not surprising at all.
    • sam_lowry_ 5y ago
      Of course they knew, because KPN is unable to run its own network, they outsourced everything. This has been knows for years.
    • Ekaros 5y ago
      The opposite would be infinitely worse. That is if Huawei were one administering the network. Allowing any government organisation option to wiretap any connection without any knowledge or controls is entirely against western values. Logically police and intelligence services should be ones telling ISPs what to tap. And they should only comply with proper process. Anything else is totalitarianism.
• dragonelite 5y ago
  Like most Huawei/Chinese tech fud stories we have seen the last 3~4 years. A lot of posturing but no evidence or proofs strong enough to force a lawsuit. Reality is the anglo-europeans(atlantic coastal folks) wants to split the world in half at least in cyber space. Pompeo talked about it openly with the Clean network initiative. That means no Chinese tech or hardware in the west. They will pull the whole of the EU with them either peaceful and if that doesn't work forcefully.
  • gataca 5y ago
    China has split the cyber world in half with their Great Firewall. Until they open their cyber space up to the west I don’t see any reason why the outside world would allow state-controlled Chinese companies to have access to their markets/networks.
    • dragonelite 5y ago
      We in the west were above those petty things right, we could out innovate the Chinese etc. But the clean network initiative isn't only about China, its also about Iran and Russian. I expect a big boom in Iran tech, the following next two decade now that China has given them a get out of jail card from the western financial siege war. Its not like western companies don't have access at all, Facebook for example still earns quiet some money from China selling ads, Google was planning on making a Chinese specific search engine called Project Dragonfly. Would google really allocate all those resources for a market they can't access?
      • zthrowaway 5y ago
        Yes go ahead and innovate around them as they steal your intellectual property. If the Chinese networks / markets were so easy to penetrate as you are suggesting, why would Google have to spend so much time developing a separate search engine for them to be approved by the CCP? Why wouldn’t they just use the search engines that are already out there? It’s pretty obvious as to why.
        • dragonelite 5y ago
          History has shown that rising powers take what they need to keep their rise going. Just like the UK, France and other send spies to the Netherlands and steal our shipbuilding techniques in 17th century for their own naval rise. The same as the US did with the UK steal factory design keep their own industrial rise going. The Chinese are stealing/buying technical know how to keep their rise going. Like the saying goes, When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do. So when in China, follow the Chinese regulations. The Chinese should do the same when they want to invest here in the EU.