> China-based Huawei has been under increasing scrutiny in the West over allegations of spying
Are these legitimate allegations or just negotiation tricks in the context of trade agreements?
Are these legitimate allegations or just negotiation tricks in the context of trade agreements?
This was big news last week and gave a lot of legitimacy to the allegations.
Huawei China allegedly continued to pester Huawei USA employees to dig up the intel, and they in turn continued to ask T-Mobile folks about Tappy's design. One of the Huawei engineers, known in the indictment only as "A.X.", took and sent unauthorized photos of the robot to Huawei China, but it wasn't enough, and they asked for more.That's just low-level corporate espionage, some people are worried that Huawei are building back doors for the CCCP to hack anyone using Huawei hardware.
Considering the national security implications, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the only thing that could be readily disclosed to score public legitimacy without revealing sources/methods.
With Huawei we have the first global company, in a strategic industry, that does not answer to the West.
This is a major shift and one that is obviously not very welcome in many circles.
Are they doing industrial espionage to steal tech for themselves? Yes, certainly seems so.
Are they embedding hidden things into their tech to spy on the communications of their customers? To my knowledge there’s no evidence of this, but it feels like this should be a serious concern.