CNBC: Huawei employees intercepted encrypted messages to help African governments spy on political opponents, says WSJ
* A Wall Street Journal investigation found that Huawei employees helped governments in Uganda and Zambia spy on political opponents.
* The investigation did not find evidence that executives in China were aware of or approved the activities.
* The U.S. government has previously expressed concerns that Huawei’s technology could be used by the Chinese government for espionage.
Huawei employees helped African governments spy on political opponents by using cell data to track their location and intercepting encrypted communications and social media, a Wall Street Journal investigation found.
The report, which did not find evidence that Huawei executives in China were aware of or approved the activities in Africa, could still add ammunition to the U.S. government’s allegations that Huawei could be used for espionage on behalf of the Chinese government. Huawei has denied these claims, but the U.S. has remained wary of the smartphone maker, with the Department of Justice filing criminal charges in two separate cases in January, alleging its CFO committed wire fraud and violated U.S. sanctions on Iran and that the company stole trade secrets from T-Mobile.
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Update #1: Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents (Wall Street Journal)
Update #2: Huawei Bombshell: Extensive Cyber Spying On Beijing's Political Opponents In Africa Revealed (Zero Hedge)
WNU Editor: This report only adds ammunition to U.S. allegations that Huawei could be used for espionage on behalf of the Chinese government.
2 comments:
I love it how the American Media accuses the Chinese (and the Russians, too) of doing what Edward Snowden documented that the Anglo-US intelligence alliance has been doing for decades. Have we forgotten already? It's all about geopolitics, about keeping humanity divided against itself to prevent the realization of what Edward Teller characterized as the "common aims of mankind."
We were talking about listening devices at home and work. A friend of mine told me she was having a meeting with someone in their office. They had talked for about 20 mins when SIRI said 'I didn't hear that last bit, could you repeat it please.' The other employee used SIRI on her lap top. I doubt it would take much for a nefarious entity to have SIRI send off some information to somewhere should "she" overhear a conversation where key words were spoken.
There are already devices, capable of listening to conversations and communicating information with outside points, basically everywhere.
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