Editor’s Note: The claim in the Financial Times beyondbrics blog post below that a “White House-ordered review in 2012 found no evidence that Huawei…had been spying for the Chinese government” is wrong. For more information on the White House review of Huawei, please see here.
From: ft.com/beyondbrics
Now the group is under investigation in India, following allegations that it hacked state-run telecoms carrier Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL).
A White House-ordered review in 2012 found no evidence that Huawei – founded by Ren Zhengfei, a former officer for the People’s Liberation Army – had been spying for the Chinese government.
The US indignation over Huawei has started smack of hypocrisy, given leaked documents suggest the US government has been exploiting its own local companies – including Apple and Google – to snoop on foreign citizens, and all the Edward Snowden NSA revelations.
But now it is India’s turn.
“An incident about alleged hacking of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited network by Huawei, a Chinese telecom company, has come to notice,” minister of state for communications and IT, Killi Kruparani, told parliament, according to the Press Trust of India. “The government has constituted an inter-ministerial team to investigate the matter.”
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