Ahhh, this is BIG. Huawei (China) had backdoors into 5eyes system it appears via UK

GCHQ spooks told: Break Huawei's grip on 'The Cell'

British spooks have been ordered to keep a closer eye on the Huawei employees who inspect Blighty's critical networking hardware for vulns and backdoors.

From now on, GCHQ will take a "leading and directing role" in choosing the staff who work at the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) in Banbury, Oxfordshire.

This base is known as The Cell and part of its role is to audit the security of the hardware which makes up Blighty's critical communications infrastructure. Its ultimate aim is to boost confidence among potential UK customers and stakeholders, such as telcos and politicians, by exposing vulnerabilities in kit used within the UK's Critical National Infrastructure.

The Cell's most important function is ensuring that equipment from foreign manufacturers cannot be clandestinely tapped into by foreign powers. With a Huawei-staffed cell inspecting Huawei gear, an obvious conflict of interest developed. sauce

Cyber arm of UK spy agency left without PGP encryption for four months

UK spy agency GCHQ’s cyber security arm, CESG, was left without PGP encryption for more than four months, according to a government report.

This "prevent[ed] direct electronic receipt of evaluation reports", it emerged in the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) Oversight Board (PDF) annual report.

“Internal processes were updated to ensure this issue does not recur,” said the report.

Meanwhile the report, intended to assess the perceived risks arising from the involvement of Huawei in parts of the UK’s critical national infrastructure, once again gave the Chinese kit-maker the green light.

Any risks to UK national security from Huawei’s involvement in the UK’s critical networks have been sufficiently mitigated, found the third annual probe from the HCSEC Oversight Board.

However, the report found the board had failed to verify Huawei’s source code. It said HCSEC has “provided less than ideal assurance to the operators, as part of their risk management regimes”.

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Huawei has been on the federal government's radar for nearly a decade now, but to understand what its latest defeat in the U.S. means, one has to look at the past, as the Huawei has been present in the States since 2001 and has been clashing with lawmakers, regulators, and other companies for the majority of its time here.

First legal troubles and the NSA's "Operation Shotgiant"

Shortly after Huawei started collaborating with U.S. companies at the turn of the century, the now-telecom giant found itself in legal troubles. In 2003, Cisco Systems accused it of copying its router and network switch source code, thus infringing on its patents. The lawsuit in question was dropped in mid-2004 as part of a settlement that some interpreted as Huawei's de facto admission of guilt, with the defendant agreeing to modify the source code of its devices. Almost nine years later, Huawei reflected on that episode as a non-story, with its SVP Charles Ding saying that "at that time, Huawei provided our source code of our products to Cisco for review and the results were that there was not any infringement found and in the end, Cisco withdrew the case." That claim didn't sit well with Cisco SVP General Counsel Mark Chandler who referred to it as a false "interpretation," having said he won't even bother with trying to explain the case on his own but will simply present relevant excerpts from the 2004 settlement. The redacted parts of the document he ended up publishing directly point to Huawei being found guilty of infringement during the investigation of Cisco's claims, not in the context of some obscure patents but in the sense that it literally used copy-pasted source code from Cisco's routers.

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In 2016, tens of thousands of mostly inexpensive Android phones, including the BLU R1 HD sold at Amazon from a Miami-based company that was selling rebranded Chinese phones, were secretly transmitting text messages, contact lists and call logs to servers in China. Such phones came preloaded with firmware managed by a company named Shanghai Adups Technology Co.

The issue surfaced again in July when Amazon pulled the phones over spyware. sauce

And this from a 2010 operation

The National Security Agency was creating its own back doors — directly into Huawei’s networks.

The agency pried its way into the servers in Huawei’s sealed headquarters in Shenzhen, China’s industrial heart, according to N.S.A. documents provided by the former contractor Edward J. Snowden. It obtained information about the workings of the giant routers and complex digital switches that Huawei boasts connect a third of the world’s population, and monitored communications of the company’s top executives.

One of the goals of the operation, code-named “Shotgiant,” was to find any links between Huawei and the People’s Liberation Army, one 2010 document made clear. But the plans went further: to exploit Huawei’s technology so that when the company sold equipment to other countries — including both allies and nations that avoid buying American products — the N.S.A. could roam through their computer and telephone networks to conduct surveillance and, if ordered by the president, offensive cyberoperations.

The N.S.A., for example, is tracking more than 20 Chinese hacking groups — more than half of them Chinese Army and Navy units — as they break into the networks of the United States government, companies including Google, and drone and nuclear-weapon part makers, according to a half-dozen current and former American officials.

As Huawei invested in new technology and laid undersea cables to connect its $40 billion-a-year networking empire, the agency was interested in tunneling into key Chinese customers, including “high priority targets — Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kenya, Cuba.”

The documents offer no answer to a central question: Is Huawei an independent company, as its leaders contend, or a front for the People’s Liberation Army, as American officials suggest but have never publicly proved?

Two years after Shotgiant became a major program, the House Intelligence Committee delivered an unclassified report on Huawei and another Chinese company, ZTE, that cited no evidence confirming the suspicions about Chinese government ties. Still, the October 2012 report concluded that the companies must be blocked from “acquisitions, takeover or mergers” in the United States, and “cannot be trusted to be free of foreign state influence.”

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Huawei Technologies has an aggressive plan to become the No 1 provider of telecommunications services, Down Under and across the globe, in less than five years. Unfortunately, in the recent past, this Asian giant has played a key role in helping the Iranian government, the world’s most dangerous state sponsor of terror, to monitor, track, and kill those who oppose it.

Until late last year, Huawei dominated Iran’s telecommunications business and garnered vast revenue from doing so. Unfortunately, there are also reports that it has assisted the Iranian regime in tracking, silencing and killing Iranian opposition figures. In 2009, when Iranians took to the streets to protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s election, Huawei reportedly installed tracking equipment for all of Iran’s telecommunications providers that allowed the intelligence services to locate people through their mobile phones, thus enabling the regime to pursue, jail and kill oppositionists.

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The CEO of that company was just arrested today in Canada. They are not saying what the charges are.

https://www.dailydot.com/business/david-cameron-porn-firewall-china-huawei/

https://qmap.pub/read/2378

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Yep, big spy op, pay to play involving many seedy players. Alexander Downer, Hillary's Brother Tony Rodham, China, Iran, Australia, UK. More info gathered in these posts https://voat.co/v/GreatAwakening/2895573 and https://voat.co/v/theawakening/2894644

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