Thread: US warning allies to ditch Huawei, Chinese "spying" equipment

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Check out the NDS (I. E. Mosad...) involvement in Cisco... I used to work a lot with NDS, they were all ex-Mosad tech experts; in those days they were managing the UKs BskyB security; all stb communication went through them.

Mate there isn't a decent security company in the world that doesn't have blue suede shoes involved. They are the global leaders in cryptography.

Originally Posted by Norton

Right on cue.

Because what he means is "Harry will see this, burst out laughing at my stupidity again and take the piss".

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

the Israelis are exceptionally smart in the information technology space; world leaders by a long distance.

That's stretching it a bit.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) -- In order to rebuild its damaged reputation after news broke late last year that spy chips had been allegedly planted in its motherboards, Supermicro is planning on shifting production of its motherboards from China to a factory in northern Taiwan.
In October, Bloomberg reported that tiny rice-sized chips had been implanted on Supermicro server motherboards enabling the Chinese government to spy on servers operated by Apple, Amazon Web Services, and nearly 30 other companies. The chips were allegedly designed to enable a People's Liberation Army unit specializing in hardware attacks to steal data from U.S. companies without being detected.
Although Supermicro, Apple, Amazon, and the Chinese government have denied that such devices have been planted in the motherboards, the damage to its reputation was significant. The motherboard maker has since had difficulty winning orders from US customers and those with ties to the US government, reported Techspot.
To allay customers' concerns about security, Supermicro has started to both ask its partners relocate production to other countries and Supermicro is handling more of its own production outside of China, including a new factory in Taiwan. Previously, Supermicro outsourced most of the production to suppliers in China, while it mainly only handled assembly.
On Monday, Supermicro held a groundbreaking to mark the beginning of work on the second phase of a new 800,000-square foot factory in Taoyuan, Taiwan, reported Digitimes. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said that Supermicrro has invested NT$2 billion (64.7 million) in the second phase of the plant in Taoyuan's Bade District and will ultimately increase its investment in the facility to NT$10 billion, reported CNA.
At the ceremony, Tsai said that the positive attitude of the government, as well as the adjustment of many laws and regulations which have improved the investment environment, have encouraged many foreign and Taiwanese companies to invest in Taiwan in recent years.
The first phase of Supermicro's Asia Tech and Science complex was completed in 2012 and a logistics center and factory were built in 2016. The second phase of the new complex is expected to bring 400 new jobs to the area and raise the plant's total workforce to 1,500 by 2021, reported CNA.
As part of its plans to shift away from China, Supermicro is not only expanding its footprint in Silicon Valley, but it is also gradually increasing its in-house production, so that it will rely less on contractors, according to Digitimes.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3693653

Interesting. Looks like the chinkies forgot a bribe.

Vietnam may soon become one of the first Southeast Asian countries to go 5G, with local telecoms firms racing to develop the country’s first nationwide network. But the cutting edge advancement is likely to come with one notable absentee: Chinese tech giant Huawei.

The country’s biggest carrier, Viettel, announced on April 25 it had successfully tried out a 5G broadcast station in Hanoi with a speed of 600 to 700Mbps, reportedly on par with Verizon in the US. A full 5G network test is expected this month, Viettel said, with services offered to customers soon after if successful.

Notably, Viettel claimed it had developed its own core technologies for 5G networks, including chips and devices. In fact, the firm said it aims to manufacture 80 per cent of the core network infrastructure needed for the network by 2020. The rest will come from suppliers.

But Viettel said it does not and will not use Huawei equipment, even for its current 4G networks.

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Choosing to use self-developed equipment or those from non-Chinese suppliers will be a safer option for Vietnam. As acknowledged by a Viettel representative in an interview with the Nikkei Asian Review, Viettel decided to develop and produce core network equipment “to avoid the risk of being unable to support the safety and security of the national telecommunications network”

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opini...huawei-notably

Federal prosecutors have indicted a Chinese national they say carried out sophisticated network intrusions on four US companies, including one on health insurer Anthem that stole personal information belonging to close to 80 million people.

Fujie Wang—a 32-year-old resident of Shenzhen, China, who sometimes used the first name Dennis—was part of a hacking group that gained entry to Anthem and three other unnamed companies, according to an indictment unsealed on Thursday. Along with other members of the group, he carried out the hacks using spear-phishing emails that lured employees of the companies to malicious websites. The websites, in turn, installed backdoors on the employees’ computers. The defendants allegedly used the compromised computers to penetrate the networks.

In some cases, the indictment alleged, the hackers would wait months before identifying and harvesting sensitive data stored on the networks, presumably to prevent calling attention to the breaches. The series of intrusions spanned from February 2014 to January 2015. Two of the three unnamed US companies were in the technology and basic materials industries. The third provided communications services.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/feds-charge-chinese-national-in-2015-hack-of-health-insurer-anthem/

tip of the iceberg, Americans don't have a fooking clue how deep they are being penetrated

same with the over paranoid clueless lords in SA and the Gulf states, bunch of clowns

we are deep inside everyone

Macron says it is not France's aim to block Huawei
16 May 2019

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron said it was not the aim of France to block Huawei, nor to launch any form of technological war, a day after the U.S. government moved to blacklist the Chinese telecoms giant.

"Our perspective is not to block Huawei or any company, it is to preserve our national security and European sovereignty. But I think launching now a technological war or a trade war... is not appropriate," said Macron on Thursday, speaking at the Paris 'VivaTech' event.

The blacklisting added another incendiary element to the U.S.-China trade dispute.

Macron says it is not France's aim to block Huawei | News , World | THE DAILY STAR?

Trump declares national emergency.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...threats-huawei

Oops caught again.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei has a hidden “backdoor” on the network of a major Dutch telecoms firm, making it possible to access customer data, newspaper De Volkskrant said on Thursday, citing unidentified intelligence sources.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-huawei-tech/dutch-spy-agency-investigating-alleged-huawei-backdoor-volkskrant-idUSKCN1SM0UY

And now back to you, bellingcat, something again about MH17...

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

citing unidentified intelligence sources

Good one 'arry.

Originally Posted by OhOh

Good one 'arry.

Yeah, they don't run around saying "Hi, I'm Derek, and I'm a spy" funnily enough.


Meanwhile....

Last week, the United States added Huawei to its 'Entity List', meaning US companies can't do business with Huawei without explicit government approval. A report from Reuters claims Google is ceasing most partnerships with Huawei, and future phones from the company won't have access to the Play Store and other services.
Reuters claims that Google has stopped providing Huawei with hardware and software products, except those covered by open source licenses. In other words, while Huawei can still use Android itself, most proprietary services will be inaccessible — including the Google Play Store, Gmail, and presumably anything else that requires the closed-source Play Services Framework.
The exact details are still being discussed internally at Google, according to a source that spoke with Reuters. The move could also prevent Huawei from updating its existing phones, as the updates can't be re-certified for Play Store access.
If this ends up being true, it would be a critical blow to Huawei's smartphone business. While the company could theoretically partner with non-American companies to provide alternatives to Google's applications (or use the in-house operating system it has been working on for a while), the lack of Play Store access would be a major drawback to any potential buyers.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/0...he-play-store/

^ unidentified intelligence sources has been known to lie in the past, there is no reason for other people than a shill like you to believe in them now.

It is all about an import protection and an attempt by the US government to make US a leader in supplying the next generation UMTS equipment after they have slipped behind the rest of the world by promoting their old CDMA system and building on that technology until they eventually had to accept that UMTS was the way to go.
There is still a lot of old CDMA systems in use in US so there is a huge local market waiting for upgrade, those systems can barely compete with UMTS of today and will be completely outdated when compared to UMTS 5G.


Google does not remove access to Huawei out of free will, they do it because they don't get the governments approval to continue supply Huawei.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

including the Google Play Store, Gmail, and presumably anything else that requires the closed-source Play Services Framework.

I presume losing a very active and growing market has no consequences to core and app developers. Or have others already taken that market?

Another foot shoot. Way to go yet, but the apple is rotting due to bad husbandry.

Originally Posted by OhOh

I presume losing a very active and growing market has no consequences to core and app developers. Or have others already taken that market?

Another foot shoot. Way to go yet, but the apple is rotting due to bad husbandry.

If Huawei phones have to use a different play store there is a much higher risk of spying and IP stealing software being installed on their....




Oh.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

If Huawei phones have to use a different play store there is a much higher risk of spying

One presumes you believe others do not gather you online behaviour/usage and sell it to all interested parties then?

To better their ability to "spy" and after careful analysis, "enable a better internet experience", for the benefit of the individual.

So did one not get the joke or does one not like the joke?




P.S. The biggest loser here could be Apple. Even funnier.

P.P.S. Oh, and the biggest winner Samsung.

Too fucking funny. That baldy orange cunto knows how to shoot himself in the foot eh.

Creepy...

^A missed opportunity.

Orders from a government officer or just a countries media's indifference to dig out the facts.

On Monday, the US temporarily eased some of the restrictions, a sign of how the prohibitions on Huawei may have far-reaching and unintended consequences for the telecommunications sector at large.

For the next 90 days, the US Department of Commerce will allow Huawei to purchase US-made goods in order to maintain existing networks and provide software updates to existing Huawei handsets.

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...panys-strength

Might explain why one second hand phone site reported a surge in people trying to flog their Huawei handsets and a massive drop in the prices.

I'm guessing the P30 is taking a hit, too.

Originally Posted by OhOh

Oops, backsliding after a day or two by the bone spur serial liar.

"On Monday, the US temporarily eased some of the restrictions, a sign of how the prohibitions on Huawei may have far-reaching and unintended consequences for the telecommunications sector at large"


https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...panys-strength

"For the next 90 days"

i.e Long enough for US companies to source alternative suppliers.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

"For the next 90 days"

i.e Long enough for US companies to source alternative suppliers.

Or extended and extended and .....

Originally Posted by OhOh

Or extended and extended and .....

Nah, I'm sure they've already nicked all the designs and will start making their own copies shortly.