Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents

Re:Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Poli... by close04 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @04:42AM (#20703586)

I think this is the real problem: China/Huawei are pushing their competition out of the "support an (oppressive) regime" business. They become the go-to partner for regimes that historically relied on western or middle-eastern partners maintaining their authority.

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Re:Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Poli... by cm2187 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @06:55AM (#20704087)

Maybe merely a quality choice! If you want to buy a nice car, you go for a German brand, if you want fine wine, go French, if you want software, go American, if you want an orwellian mass surveillance system, you go with the country which speciality it is!

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Re:Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Poli... by close04 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @07:23AM (#20704187)

> if you want an orwellian mass surveillance system

I think this misses the point. Countries like US or Israel are perfectly capable [0][1][2] of offering such systems. And they do because it gives them another solid "string" attached to the regime receiving it. Their problem is that now the string (and all the knowledge, power, influence that come with it) could go to China. Hence the campaign to discredit them simply by suggesting this behavior is limited to them. Putting the facts in perspective would undermine this.

[0] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-israel...

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/report-saudi-arabia...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/17/how-us-sur...

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Re:Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Poli... by waterdownship on Thursday August 15, 2019 @04:19PM (#20709211)

Cisco allegedly helped China built their surveillance system in the first place.

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