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Re:Huawei Mate 30 phones launch without Google apps by amaccuish on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:02PM (#21017485)
Do you have any evidence of that?
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Re:Huawei Mate 30 phones launch without Google apps by amaccuish on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:49PM (#21018019)
So does any of that have to do with Huawei? Or is it just an OS that Huawei happens to use was included in an indiscriminate attack?
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Re:Huawei Mate 30 phones launch without Google apps by vezycash on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:57PM (#21018104)
I remember talks here on HN about Chinese made IOT devices phoning home to servers in China. There have also been discussion on HN about Huawei's telecom equipment being backdoored or simply rigged to siphon information back to china.
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Re:Huawei Mate 30 phones launch without Google apps by opencl on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:18PM (#21018360)
Lots of people talking about Huawei backdoors, none providing credible evidence of them actually existing. They have their share of security vulnerabilities but no worse than competitors such as Cisco[1].

Random Chinese made IOT devices phoning home to servers in China is definitely a thing, but has nothing to do with Huawei.

[1] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/evidence-of-backdoors-i...

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Re:Huawei Mate 30 phones launch without Google apps by amaccuish on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:14PM (#21018300)
If this were the case, why do the vast majority of mobile phone networks around the world continue to use and even buy more from Huawei?
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Re:Huawei Mate 30 phones launch without Google apps by president on Thursday September 19, 2019 @03:20PM (#21019642)
Naiveté and a bit of corruption and/or blackmail. More people need to watch this recent interview with a former CCP insider on the Chinese threat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cwXifDaCjE&t=3s.
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Re:Huawei Mate 30 phones launch without Google apps by trakout on Thursday September 19, 2019 @07:35PM (#21021804)
What kind of data is being sent?

Devices that need to legitimately phone home for something tend to do so by requesting servers within or close to the country they were developed in.

Imagine people getting riled up at the thought of Apple phoning home to a US-based NTP server..

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Re:Huawei Mate 30 phones launch without Google apps by Someone1234 on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:45PM (#21017970)
So, no, then? There's nothing in any of these links to support the claim that there is "CCP spyware" on the phones.

In fact at least two of your articles are about them putting spyware on iPhones, which undercuts your point further.

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Re:Huawei Mate 30 phones launch without Google apps by justicezyx on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:52PM (#21018042)
I also feel amused that huawei smart phone are quite popular, and you are only able to find claims from mainstream media outlets instead of users with Huawei phone, which have been proven to lack the ability to verify tech details...
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Re:Huawei Mate 30 phones launch without Google apps by amaccuish on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:56PM (#21018094)
> which have been proven to lack the ability to verify tech details

Sorry are you saying that Huawei users are thick or something?

(If you have evidence of Huawei phones having software preinstalled that uploads a user's whatsapp conversations and whatnot to some IP then be my guest! But I don't think you do...)

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