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Wow, i'd heard general political complaints about Huawei but never stuff like this: "The day the TDC team set up in Plesner’s offices, the law firm’s IT system
by usernomdeguerre 3y ago
Wow, i'd heard general political complaints about Huawei but never stuff like this:
"The day the TDC team set up in Plesner’s offices, the law firm’s IT systems came under a denial-of-service hacking attack."
"At 12:20 a.m. on March 20, a security guard patrolling the Plesner offices noticed lights floating outside the 15th-floor room where TDC’s team had been working. Peering into the glare, he saw a large drone. For 10 minutes it remained there, flying up, down and sideways. Then it descended out of sight. Upon learning of the incident the following morning, the TDC investigators realized they’d failed to close the shades in the office. There was a wall-size whiteboard facing the windows on which they’d been tracing all of their leads, and it would have been in full view."
Makes it much more clear why there was so much saber-rattling about them.
- nirui 3y agoThis is what "wolf cult" i mean "culture" get you I guess :( There is another story from ancient times tells the tale about two big telecom company in China stealing or damaging each other's production equipment/infrastructures installed on the streets... knowing that, the act of photographing your whiteboard with drone suddenly sounded well within the realm of possible things that could happen.
- TechBro8615 3y agoIf anyone else is confused about the "wolf cult[ure]" reference: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/huawei-workers-iran-sanctions.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/huawei-workers...
- News-Dog 3y agoWolf Warrior - International Influence : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Warrior#International_influence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Warrior#International_inf... China's aggressive 'Wolf Warrior Diplomacy' : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_warrior_diplomacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_warrior_diplomacy
- richbell 3y agoHuawei also greatly benefited from Chinese espionage targeting Nortel, which was Canada's premiere tech company at the time.
- transcriptase 3y agoThere were rumours ~10 years ago that a planned repurposing of a Nortel complex to government offices was cancelled because the buildings were found to be riddled with (presumably Huawei) bugs.
- somerandomqaguy 3y agoIt was delayed at least. National Defense Headquarters was moved into the Nortel Campus in 2017 or so.
- FormerBandmate 3y agoAlso Huawei’s ownership structure is notoriously opaque
- andersrs 3y agoIt would be very easy for them to pull it off vs the other way around. So many Chinese people work in Canada. But practically no western people work in China.
- NicoJuicy 3y agoAnd that's because of China being afraid of what they are doing abroad.
- PradeetPatel 3y agoAs someone who worked in both China and Canada over the last decade, I'm surprised that we didn't hear more or it from the Canadian side. I am not a lawyer, but surely there are legal consequences to utilising intellectual properties obtained via illegitimate means, any legal specialists here?
- civilitty 3y agoBRB going to turn my commercial drone license into a ChatGPT-enabled corporate-espionage-as-a-service. That's some James Bond sh*t right there!
- foobarian 3y agoWhat kind of amateur doesn’t camouflage the clandestine drone lights. Those things are blindingly bright
- ceejayoz 3y agoMaybe they needed to illuminate the whiteboard through the window.
- PradeetPatel 3y agoIIRC obscuring drone lights is against the Danish Civil Aviation laws.
- chihuahua 3y agoand of course Huawei would never do anything that violates Danish Civil Aviation laws!
- justsomehnguy 3y ago"Only break one law at a time"