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NSA Spied on Chinese Government and Huawei

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday March 23 2014, @07:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the Shocked,-shocked-I-tell-you dept.

omoc writes:

"From the SPON article:

"The American government conducted a major intelligence offensive against China, with targets including the Chinese government and networking company Huawei, according to documents from former NSA worker Edward Snowden that have been viewed by SPIEGEL. Among the American intelligence service's targets were former Chinese President Hu Jintao, the Chinese Trade Ministry, banks, as well as telecommunications companies. But the NSA made a special effort to target Huawei.

According to a top secret NSA presentation, NSA workers not only succeeded in accessing the email archive, but also the secret source code of individual Huwaei products."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by mendax on Sunday March 23 2014, @09:09AM

    by mendax (2840) on Sunday March 23 2014, @09:09AM (#19904)

    Industrial espionage is not the purpose of any intelligence agency.

    It is when the technology being stolen can be used to penetrate a foreign government's communications system. Surely you don't believe that the Chinese government buys their networking hardware from Cisco.

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  • (Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 23 2014, @09:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 23 2014, @09:14AM (#19906)

    so, according to their own standards, they just declared war on china?

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by mendax on Sunday March 23 2014, @06:24PM

      by mendax (2840) on Sunday March 23 2014, @06:24PM (#19961)

      so, according to their own standards, they just declared war on china?

      Well, a cold war at least. Guess what's, folks? It's back. Only we do a lot more business with this alleged enemy. Although in this case, the "enemy" is not an ideological one, it's simple an economic competitor.

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