The big Huawei lie

Huawei’s rotating chairman Guo Ping has gone on the offensive this week at Mobile World Congress, following continued pressure on US allies to drop the Chinese telecoms giant over national security fears. In a strident on-stage speech and a Financial Times editorial, Guo is escalating Huawei’s side of the story by explicitly calling out the NSA, which Edward Snowden has shown to have hacked Huawei in the past, while presenting his company as a more secure option for the rest of the world.

“If the NSA wants to modify routers or switches in order to eavesdrop, a Chinese company will be unlikely to co-operate,” Guo says in the FT, citing a leaked NSA document that said the agency wanted “to make sure that we know how to exploit these [Huawei] products.” Guo argues that his company “hampers US efforts to spy on whomever it wants,” reiterating its position that “Huawei has not and will never plant backdoors.”

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/27/18242656/huawei-us-security-nsa-guo-ping-mwc-2019

The US government is lying about Huawei by claiming they will use their phones to hack Americans. They don't like Huawei because the NSA cannot use their phones to hack Americans.

@metal-brain said
Huawei’s rotating chairman Guo Ping has gone on the offensive this week at Mobile World Congress, following continued pressure on US allies to drop the Chinese telecoms giant over national security fears. In a strident on-stage speech and a Financial Times editorial, Guo is escalating Huawei’s side of the story by explicitly calling out the NSA, which Edward Snowden has s ...[text shortened]... to hack Americans. They don't like Huawei because the NSA cannot use their phones to hack Americans.

@kevcvs57 said
Don’t be stupid it’ll be because of both of those blatant truths. You just have to decide who you’d rather be hacked by, I’d rather be hacked by a democracy than an authoritarian dictatorship 🤷🏻‍♂️

@metal-brain said
Read the article before spreading misinformation. Hauwei made their software transparent to prove they did not create any backdoors like Apple did.

https://wccftech.com/apple-backdoor-to-iphones/

@kevcvs57 said
No I don’t need to read the article, the Chinese government is obsessed with openly tracking its citizens every move and their online activity, they are currently pulling all the stops to identify and track Chinese expat dissidents, It’s just that you prefer them to the US government because your a Russian troll or your sooo stupid that you believe a Chinese company with close links to the CCP.