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Local and, sadly, KPN customer here. Try google translating: https://nos.nl/artikel/2377038-huawei-kon-gesprekken-kpn-klanten-afluisteren.html https://nos.nl/ar
by BruceEel 6y ago
Local and, sadly, KPN customer here. Try google translating: https://nos.nl/artikel/2377038-huawei-kon-gesprekken-kpn-klanten-afluisteren.html https://nos.nl/artikel/2377038-huawei-kon-gesprekken-kpn-kla...
Anyway,
KPN laat vanochtend aan de NOS weten dat nooit is vastgesteld dat er
door Huawei klantgegevens zijn ontvreemd uit het netwerk of de klantsystemen, of dat er is afgeluisterd.
KPN told NOS (the above news site) that there is no evidence Huawei collected customer personal info or that they've eavesdropped. The bad news is that that's because they have no way of knowing, as mentioned elsewehere in the article.
- Freestyler_3 6y agoThey couldn't see what was happening because it was in chinese...
- k_sze 6y agoEven if everything was in Chinese, hiring a Chinese translater costs pennies compared to any disaster that this could cause. The translater doesn’t even need to be Chinese; there are probably enough Europeans who have studied in China and returned.
- Vinnl 6y agoYeah, it's not that it eavesdropped, but that it gave itself the opportunity to do so, and that no systems were in place to keep track of that - i.e. that whether it happened or not, KPN would not be able to have evidence of that. That said, a month ago it was reported [1] that Huawei did explicitly add a way for them to access customer data of one of KPN's subsidiaries, and that it used that "regularly". Could theoretically be e.g. to aid debugging or something, but not a great look. [1] https://nos.nl/artikel/2374551-huawei-had-onbeperkt-toegang-tot-miljoenen-klantgegevens-van-telfort.html https://nos.nl/artikel/2374551-huawei-had-onbeperkt-toegang-...