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>Huawei also began to use one of BES’s software systems to establish a 'backdoor' from China into Pakistan that allowed Huawei to collect and view data importan

>Huawei also began to use one of BES’s software systems to establish a 'backdoor' from China into Pakistan that allowed Huawei to collect and view data important to Pakistan’s national security and other private, personal data on Pakistani citizens." Apart from propaganda value of trying to drive wedge between PRC and Pakistan, is this suite suggesting Huawei... didn't have capability to collect info prior to 2017? Also how does a California based company expect to extract any payment from an US sanctioned Huawei, not much leverage now that they are forced to de-americanize. Or that US labelled telecom tech dual-use, and stealing military tech is totally fair game. Huawei had to settle with CISCO to enter US market, but AVIC isn't worried over using stolen F35 plans on J20. Seems like a very futile suit apart from geopolitcal factors.

eternalban 5y ago
From the article: ""Backdoor" may not be the right term, though it's difficult to be certain without knowing the details of the system's technical architecture. In the complaint, the term is used to describe a duplicate of the PSCA's DES running on servers based in a Huawei facility in Suzhou, China. Whether that copy arises from a covert remote access capability or an overt replication option under indifferent or permissive security policy isn't clear." So zero evidence of a backdoor. > Apart from propaganda value of trying to drive wedge between PRC and Pakistan. ... Seems like a very futile suit apart from geopolitcal factors. That's exactly how it reads for me as well.