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In reply to the discussion: Weekend Economists Hit the New Year (and it hits back) Goodbye 2013 / Hello 2014! [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)29. U.S. to China: We Hacked Your Internet Gear We Told You Not to Hack By Cade Metz
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/nsa-cisco-huawei-china/
The headline news is that the NSA has surreptitiously burrowed its way into nearly all the security architecture sold by the worlds largest computer networking companies, including everyone from U.S. mainstays Cisco and Juniper to Chinese giant Huawei. But beneath this bombshell of a story from Der Spiegel, youll find a rather healthy bit of irony. After all, the United States government has spent years complaining that Chinese intelligence operations could find ways of poking holes in Huawei networking gear, urging both American businesses and foreign allies to sidestep the companys hardware. The complaints grew so loud that, at one point, Huawei indicated it may abandon the U.S. networking market all together. And, yet, Der Speigel now tells us that U.S. intelligence operations have been poking holes in Huawei networking gear not to mention hardware sold by countless other vendors in both the States and abroad.
Plummer and Huawei have long complained that when the U.S. House Intelligence Committee released a report in October 2012 condemning the use of Huawei gear in telephone and data networks, it failed to provide any evidence that the Chinese government had compromised the companys hardware. Adam Segal, a senior fellow for China Studies at the Center for Foreign Relations, makes the same point. And now we have evidence Der Spiegel cites leaked NSA documents that the U.S. government has compromised gear on a massive scale.
Do I see the irony? Certainly the Chinese will, Segal says, noting that the Chinese government and the Chinese press have complained of U.S hypocrisy ever since former government contractor Edward Snowden first started to reveal NSA surveillance practices last summer. The Chinese government has been hammering home what they call the U.S.s ulterior motives for criticizing China, and theres been a steady drumbeat of stories in the Chinese press about backdoors in the products of U.S. companies. Theyve been going after Cisco in particular.
To be sure, the exploits discussed by Der Spiegel are a little different from the sort of attacks Congress envisioned during its long campaign against Huawei and ZTE, another Chinese manufacturer. As Segal and others note, Congress mostly complained that the Chinese government could collaborate with people inside the two companies to plant backdoors in their gear, with lawmakers pointing out that Huaweis CEO was once an officer in Chinas Peoples Liberation Army, or PLA, the military arm of the countrys Communist party. Der Spiegel, by contrast, says the NSA is exploiting hardware without help from anyone inside the Ciscos and the Huaweis, focusing instead on compromising network gear with clever hacks or intercepting the hardware as its shipped to customers.
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The headline news is that the NSA has surreptitiously burrowed its way into nearly all the security architecture sold by the worlds largest computer networking companies, including everyone from U.S. mainstays Cisco and Juniper to Chinese giant Huawei. But beneath this bombshell of a story from Der Spiegel, youll find a rather healthy bit of irony. After all, the United States government has spent years complaining that Chinese intelligence operations could find ways of poking holes in Huawei networking gear, urging both American businesses and foreign allies to sidestep the companys hardware. The complaints grew so loud that, at one point, Huawei indicated it may abandon the U.S. networking market all together. And, yet, Der Speigel now tells us that U.S. intelligence operations have been poking holes in Huawei networking gear not to mention hardware sold by countless other vendors in both the States and abroad.
We read the media reports, and weve noted the references to Huawei and our peers, says William Plummer, a Huawei vice president and the companys point person in Washington, D.C. As we have said, over and over again and as now seems to be validated threats to networks and data integrity can come from any and many sources.
Plummer and Huawei have long complained that when the U.S. House Intelligence Committee released a report in October 2012 condemning the use of Huawei gear in telephone and data networks, it failed to provide any evidence that the Chinese government had compromised the companys hardware. Adam Segal, a senior fellow for China Studies at the Center for Foreign Relations, makes the same point. And now we have evidence Der Spiegel cites leaked NSA documents that the U.S. government has compromised gear on a massive scale.
Do I see the irony? Certainly the Chinese will, Segal says, noting that the Chinese government and the Chinese press have complained of U.S hypocrisy ever since former government contractor Edward Snowden first started to reveal NSA surveillance practices last summer. The Chinese government has been hammering home what they call the U.S.s ulterior motives for criticizing China, and theres been a steady drumbeat of stories in the Chinese press about backdoors in the products of U.S. companies. Theyve been going after Cisco in particular.
To be sure, the exploits discussed by Der Spiegel are a little different from the sort of attacks Congress envisioned during its long campaign against Huawei and ZTE, another Chinese manufacturer. As Segal and others note, Congress mostly complained that the Chinese government could collaborate with people inside the two companies to plant backdoors in their gear, with lawmakers pointing out that Huaweis CEO was once an officer in Chinas Peoples Liberation Army, or PLA, the military arm of the countrys Communist party. Der Spiegel, by contrast, says the NSA is exploiting hardware without help from anyone inside the Ciscos and the Huaweis, focusing instead on compromising network gear with clever hacks or intercepting the hardware as its shipped to customers.
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