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The Straight Story

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Fri Jul 19, 2013, 10:40 AM Jul 2013

Chinese telecom giant Huawei Spies for China, Says Ex-CIA Chief

SYDNEY - The former head of the United States' Central Intelligence Agency Michael Hayden said Friday it "goes without saying" that Chinese telecoms giant Huawei spies for Beijing.

Speaking to the Australian Financial Review, Hayden claimed China was engaged in unrestricted espionage against the West and said it was his belief that Huawei would have shared information with state agencies.

\Asked whether Huawei represented an unambiguous national security threat to the US and Australia, Hayden replied: "Yes, I believe it does".

Britain, the United States and Australia have all raised concerns that Huawei's alleged ties to the Chinese state could see telecoms equipment supplied by the company used for spying and cyber-attacks.

Huawei denies it has any direct links to the Chinese state, but the US Congress last year called for its exclusion from US government contracts and it was also barred from bidding for contracts to build Australia's national broadband network.


http://www.securityweek.com/huawei-spies-china-says-ex-cia-chief

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Chinese telecom giant Huawei Spies for China, Says Ex-CIA Chief (Original Post) The Straight Story Jul 2013 OP
Sounds like the U.S. rusty fender Jul 2013 #1
I'd bet money if someone fled with secrets of their spying from there, we would give em asylum The Straight Story Jul 2013 #2
More likely a job at General Dynamics and a visa. nt geek tragedy Jul 2013 #3
Interesting...I was at there North American headquarters a couple months ago snooper2 Jul 2013 #4
 

snooper2

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4. Interesting...I was at there North American headquarters a couple months ago
Fri Jul 19, 2013, 11:50 AM
Jul 2013

Right here in Plano off Tennyson just east of the Tollway-


Really nice building, pretty bad ass NOC they have set up...Was reviewing their IMS platform. They have a HUGE contract with a very large cable company. Downstairs they had like 20K square foot data center/lab only about 20% built out. About 20 racks were simulating the cable companies network/testing.


The funny thing is. Upstairs floors they had all this space, nice large cubes and offices..When we were down in the lab area there was one room off to the side with a door open that was around 30-60 foot. In there they had developers CRAMMED literally side by side, all Chinese just hacking away on terminals LOL. I was like, really? Rows and rows of tables, keyboards and monitors, and lots of humans.

I guess that was the H1B Visa room


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