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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: 2, Interesting) by Adrian Harvey on Sunday March 23 2014, @08:01PM
I'm not sure that those are the only possibilities - we could also have the scenarios
4) The NSA broke in, got their hands on information, found some backdoors, and decided not to inform the public because it would reveal their "special efforts" and/or their intelligence sources that had made this possible. However they did inform their government which stopped purchasing the kit, and informed the public that it had concerns, but not why or what. [this is, perhaps, the most positive possible interpretation]
5) Some part of the government decided to ban Huawei for political reasons (say, domestic protectionism) and the NSA is sent to look for some dirt to graease the wheels on the decision. These were kept secret from the public to prevent embarrassment.
6) The events were simply correlated, with no causation.
My chief worry is that there was actually a real known 0-day type exploit that stopped the government from buying them. I had formerly assumed that it was mostly political games with China or an 'if we. can't instect the source we can't be sure' problem rather than a real, known problem.