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U.S. Firm Alleges Huawei Forced It to Build a Backdoor Data Access System
It’s been widely assumed that once China’s Huawei builds a nation’s wireless telecommunications sytem and creates a “smart city” with hundreds of cameras monitoring many types of activity, the Chinese company has access to all that data. Now comes this suit by an American company regarding a smart city project in Pakistan. The story is […]…
Chinese hackers can take over a nation’s entire telecoms system–by exploiting Microsoft’s Exchange servers
This article from Bloomberg is so good but is behind a reg wall, so I share it in full here: Chinese Hackers Compromised Telecom Firms, Researchers Say By Ryan Gallagher August 3, 2021, 12:01 AM EDT Updated on August 4, 2021, 6:57 AM EDT Chinese state-backed hacking groups compromised at least five global telecommunications companies and stole […]…
State Department Shares OPC Concerns About China’s Treatment of Foreign Journalists
JULY 31, 2021 U.S. State Department Expresses Concern over China’s Treatment of Foreign Journalists Posted July 31, 2021 by OPC of America The deterioration in the treatment of foreign journalists in China has reached the point that it has triggered a statement of concern from the U.S. Department of State.The United States is deeply concerned with the increasingly harsh […]…
Facebook Making $5 Billion For Sharing Chinese Propaganda
This story from the private The Wire newsletter deserves broad circulation: Facebook’s Super Spreaders What message is Beijing trying to send? BY KATRINA NORTHROP — JULY 25, 2021 Illustration by Taylor Callery Last Friday afternoon, just as President Joe Biden was boarding Marine One for a weekend at Camp David, a reporter yelled out a question: “On Covid […]…
