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posted by martyb on Saturday February 15 2020, @10:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-spy-like-I-do dept.

The US is charging Huawei with racketeering

Ratcheting up its pressure campaign against Huawei and its affiliates, the Department of Justice and the FBI announced today that it has brought 16 charges against Huawei in a sprawling case with major geopolitical implications (you can read the full 56-page indictment here).

Huawei is being charged with conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) statute. The DoJ alleges that Huawei and a number of its affiliates used confidential agreements with American companies over the past two decades to access the trade secrets of those companies, only to then misappropriate that intellectual property and use it to fund Huawei's business.

An example of this activity is provided in the indictment. Described as "Company 1," Huawei is alleged to have stolen source code for Company 1's routers, which it then used in its own products.

[...] Huawei is also alleged to have engaged in more simple forms of industrial espionage. While at a trade show in Chicago, a Huawei-affiliated engineer "... was discovered in the middle of the night after the show had closed for the day in the booth of a technology company ... removing the cover from a networking device and taking photographs of the circuitry inside. Individual-3 wore a badge listing his employer as 'Weihua,'

[...] Together, the indictment lists multiple examples of Huawei's alleged conspiracy to pilfer U.S. intellectual property.

It's a good thing that the United States would never do 'bad things' or act in a manner like this.


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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday February 15 2020, @02:37PM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Saturday February 15 2020, @02:37PM (#958507) Journal

    when will Microsoft be Company 2?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 15 2020, @10:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 15 2020, @10:45PM (#958614)

    Microsoft was caught back in 2014 trying to insert Hamas supporters [ukmediawatch.org] into a US Army "Serious Games" training program that they had found out about by getting jobs in the State Department. There was a suspected Saudi spy on the Microsoft board, a Microsoft attorney was working for Qatar, two other Microsoft attorneys were backing the Iranian and Saudi spy rings in San Francisco, and Microsoft's open-source strategy team had just returned from the Middle East with Shanley Kane and her fake feminists who started taking over open source projects. The feds cracked down hard... on anyone talking about it.