Posted on 05/11/2021 9:43:15 AM PDT by cba123
Chinese technology provider Huawei was recently accused of being able to monitor all calls made using Dutch mobile operator KPN. The revelations are from a secret 2010 report made by consultancy firm Capgemini, which KPN commissioned to evaluate the risks of working with Huawei infrastructure.
While the full report on the issue has not been made public, journalists reporting on the story have outlined specific concerns that Huawei personnel in the Netherlands and China had access to security-essential parts of KPN’s network – including the call data of millions of Dutch citizens – and that a lack of records meant KPN couldn’t establish how often this happened.
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Don't have any inside knowledge, but it sure seems that way.
Huawei is CCP. So yeah they are bad news, even if they don’t do anything directly wrong. But you know they will.
Oh please, if you want to call your Aunt Betsy, NO PROBLEM, they’ll leave you alone. But if you want to talk trade policy with Taiwan, well, then they might be ‘interested’.
Hauwei most likely has the ability to shut down the local telephony infrastructure.
Huawei may be eavesdropping but it’s government and Dutch mobile operator KPN that are precluding the use of encryption because governments want to eavesdrop.
All Chinese products and trade should be banned from all Western countries.
An Air Force general has left the National Security Council and returned to his branch of service, following the leak of a memo that advocated a government takeover in developing the nation's 5G mobile telecom network, according to a report.
Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding was the author of the memo, which became the focus of a story by news organization Axios that irked the telecom industry and irritated the White House, the Washington Post reported Saturday.
Spalding's last day with the NSC was Jan. 31, the Post reported, citing information from a senior Trump administration official. The report said Spalding was not implicated in the leak, but officials decided his backing of the potential government takeover of the 5G network exceeded his NSC role.
The general was told he would be leaving the NSC before his memo and PowerPoint proposal were leaked, the report said. In recent weeks, senior officials became concerned that Spalding had pushed too hard for the takeover idea, the report added.
General Spalding was the one who set off the world-wide firestorm about Huawei with his memo (which was obtained and leaked by Axios) about having the US Government take control of our own 5G Network. Keep in mind, if that sounds ominous and statist, it does, but government ownership of the 5G network is NOT the only issue that he addressed in the memo apart from the National Security concerns about having Huawei equipment as the standard. He also has addressed the issue of "Who owns your electronic footprint?" As Gen. Spalding says in his excellent though very long interview (LINK HERE TO WATCH) and watch it instead of a movie some night...it is one of the inextricably linked issues: The ownership of your digital world.
When he was asked in the linked interview who we should be more concerned about, Communist China or Big Tech, his statement alarmed many people when he said "Both. They both follow the same business model." He also said that Communist China is the biggest threat to the United States (which many of us already know) which ruffled some feathers.
He states that in Communist China, The State owns your digital portfolio, your surfing habits, purchasing habits, political opinions, everything. He said that in the West, Big Tech owns your digital portfolio. Google, Apple, Microsoft, YouTube, FaceBook, etc. And they sell it to the highest bidder.
That is why the Biden Administration's plans to partner with Big Tech to get information on Americans (information they cannot lawfully get from intelligence agencies) should alarm everyone.
General Spalding says that not only should we build our own bulletproof networks (He says the military has been doing it for decades) but that our digital portfolio should belong to us, each of us as individuals.
This guy is an amazing patriot. I am glad he is on our side. His book "Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept" is one of the best I have read in the last decade, and I have the hardcover, audiobook, and eBook for annotation.
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