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Re: Huawei staff CVs reveal alleged links to Chinese intelligence agencies

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However with the same logic you can pretty much prove none if the big companies in the world is independent.

It gets especially funny for any company hiring Israeli security experts. Or even the US for that matter, college is expensive and there seems to be an array of people who get their degree financed that way.

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So if a Chinese telecom wants to do business globally, it has to exclude all CCP members and avoid state intelligence personals all together?

That seems like a good way to build trust with citizens outside of China. I believe that a wide portion of people in Western Europe and the US are distrustful of the Chinese government so excluding those individuals is a positive.

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So if a Chinese telecom wants to do business globally, it has to exclude all CCP members and avoid state intelligence personals all together?

That seems like a good way to build trust with citizens outside of China. I believe that a wide portion of people in Western Europe and the US are distrustful of the Chinese government so excluding those individuals is a positive.

Someone should tell this to MongoDB which took funding from CIA.

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So if a Chinese telecom wants to do business globally, it has to exclude all CCP members and avoid state intelligence personals all together?

> ...goes well beyond Huawei making normal hires and some happen to come from military backgrounds. For instance, Huawei employees list representing or working for Chinese state security or military agencies at the same time as they work for Huawei

Re: Huawei staff CVs reveal alleged links to Chinese intelligence agencies

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so the take is do not have a job before working for Huawei. If there is someone working for American company before joining Huawei, American government is linked to Huawei :D

The take is to not simultaneously be employed by the Chinese government and Huawei.

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Tons of former NSA persons work in the US private sector,especially within infosec.

The keyword here is “former”. In the Huawei scenario, a lot of them seem to be active intelligence officials, not former ones.

How do we know that "former" is not just on paperwork?

When I hear the arguments against China and their tech companies, I don't have a problem believing them, however I do not expect anything less from the USA.

Remember Snowden? I'm simply assuming that Facebook, Google, Apple, Cisco or any other US tech company are tapped by the US 3 letter agencies. There were some reveleations on that(PRISMA) but it's probably just tip of the iceberg.

And now the Chinese. So what?

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Tons of former NSA persons work in the US private sector,especially within infosec.

The keyword here is “former”. In the Huawei scenario, a lot of them seem to be active intelligence officials, not former ones.

Do they?

The part of the article before the paywall suggests former intelligence employees, not current ones.

In any case this is obviously fuzzy, but frankly this is not transparent either in the West.

Re: Huawei staff CVs reveal alleged links to Chinese intelligence agencies

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That seems like a good way to build trust with citizens outside of China. I believe that a wide portion of people in Western Europe and the US are distrustful of the Chinese government so excluding those individuals is a positive.

Someone should tell this to MongoDB which took funding from CIA.

I'd think Palantir would make for a better example. Simply look at anything that InQTel has funded.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/in-q-tel

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