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Originally Posted by whatnext
As I posted right above you, they have gone after other nationalities.
Are you advocating that someone inside the Canadian government should have acted as a spy for the PRC and tipped them off Meng's detention was imminent?
Huawei and Chinese tech in general have nobody but themselves to blame. With practices like inserting spyware into motherboards they painted a target on their back. Perhaps you'll be able to read this from where you are now, perhaps not:
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources.
Nested on the servers’ motherboards, the testers found a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn’t part of the boards’ original design. Amazon reported the discovery to U.S. authorities, sending a shudder through the intelligence community. Elemental’s servers could be found in Department of Defense data centers, the CIA’s drone operations, and the onboard networks of Navy warships. And Elemental was just one of hundreds of Supermicro customers.
During the ensuing top-secret probe, which remains open more than three years later, investigators determined that the chips allowed the attackers to create a stealth doorway into any network that included the altered machines. Multiple people familiar with the matter say investigators found that the chips had been inserted at factories run by manufacturing subcontractors in China...
...One country in particular has an advantage executing this kind of attack: China, which by some estimates makes 75 percent of the world’s mobile phones and 90 percent of its PCs. Still, to actually accomplish a seeding attack would mean developing a deep understanding of a product’s design, manipulating components at the factory, and ensuring that the doctored devices made it through the global logistics chain to the desired location—a feat akin to throwing a stick in the Yangtze River upstream from Shanghai and ensuring that it washes ashore in Seattle. “Having a well-done, nation-state-level hardware implant surface would be like witnessing a unicorn jumping over a rainbow,” says Joe Grand, a hardware hacker and the founder of Grand Idea Studio Inc. “Hardware is just so far off the radar, it’s almost treated like black magic.”
But that’s just what U.S. investigators found: The chips had been inserted during the manufacturing process, two officials say, by operatives from a unit of the People’s Liberation Army. In Supermicro, China’s spies appear to have found a perfect conduit for what U.S. officials now describe as the most significant supply chain attack known to have been carried out against American companies....
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featu...-top-companies |
Interesting that you'd choose that particular article, considering that it's been proven to be entirely false.
https://arstechnica.com/information-...ts-with-audit/
Not to mention, a German watchdog has recently completed an audit and found no proof of any security threat from Huawei networking equipment for 5G.
https://www.totaltele.com/501803/Ger...at-from-Huawei
All I've seen when it comes to Huawei and other Chinese mobile phone manufacturers is speculation and allegation (and of course outright fabrication as in the case of the Super Micro story) - there has never been any proof. To me it seems like a 'red scare' all over again.
And yes, I am advocating that the government should have quietly tipped off Huawei (not the Chinese government, Huawei). They should have forseen the shitstorm that was going to result, and the Chinese response has been entirely predictable. Is the (clearly politically influenced) arrest of one Chinese executive worth all the trouble that it has caused for Canada now and most likely in the future? Note that I am not defending China's response here, only stating as a fact that it was obviously going to happen and Canada should have realized that.
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