Why Washington Is Paranoid About Huawei
It has done what it acusses Huawei of, but can not prove
The past illuminates the present. This bombshell of a story dropped by The Washington Post certainly explains a lot about America’s current war against Chinese 5G supplier Huawei.
For more than half a century after the second world war, the Swiss company Crypto, whose products the governments of more than 100 countries have relied on to send secure encrypted messages, was secretly owned and operated by the CIA and its West German intelligence counterpart, the BND.
This has enabled American intelligence to read the top secrets of friends and foes alike, and to share them with other members of the so-called Five Eyes, the intelligence services of four other English-speaking countries.
But given the close working relationship with West German intelligence, maybe it should have been called the Six Eyes, despite the language differences.
Washington has kept insinuating that Huawei poses a security risk to all companies and governments that use its 5G infrastructures. Yet, it has never provided actual evidence despite having searched high and low for it, including illegally hacking into Huawei’s mainframes at its Shenzhen headquarters.
What Americans are afraid of, or paranoid about, is that the 5G pioneer will be to Chinese intelligence what Crypto was to the CIA. It takes one to know one.
As George Yeo, former minister of foreign affairs for Singapore, said in a recent speech, “a key reason for the US campaign against Huawei is the fear that China may not only develop a similar surveillance capability but Chinese equipment and Chinese systems will make it harder for the US to maintain the same surveillance reach”.
Americans are afraid that Huawei is dirty. But as Yeo explains, it’s just as bad for US intelligence if it is clean: it won’t have flaws and back-door vulnerabilities so readily available to exploit.
And of course, thanks to Edward Snowden, we know that other US agencies such as the FBI and National Security Agency have exploited such back doors with large US tech companies, including Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and others.
Yeo makes a third important point: “The only safe assumption is that all systems expose us to external intelligence penetration. We have to find ways to protect ourselves and accept that nothing is foolproof.”
If all systems are penetrable, the only answer is to be extra vigilant. Picking on one company or one country just distracts you from being alert to threats from elsewhere.
Source: South China Morning Post
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The CIA risking to “lose” influence?
Kindly keep in mind that there have been many, many cases of the overpowering of the 5g airwaves which are proving to be most devaststing to ones health. Many cases of headaches, nervousness, debilitation to some degree…enough provable dishearting cases of extreme irritation to humans, birds, cats, dogs, etc., to warrant extreme caution. We 4 certain will not be allowing 5g into our household, 2 many “strikes” against it, and who needs umpteen more sattelites up there? Expat tom🤑🤑
https://warontherocks.com/2020/02/the-army-needs-full-stack-data-scientists-and-analytics-translators/
US Army searching for AI data specialists.
The US corporations just cannot compete with the Chinese – in any venue.
And that means that China has a much superior network: 5G, which the US is trying
so hard to procure..The US just cannot admit that they are 2nd best..at the most.!
They cannot compete successful;y on an international level and are frustrated..full stop.