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Huawei stole our tech and created a 'backdoor' to spy on Pakistan, claims IT biz

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Re: Huawei stole our tech and created a 'backdoor' to spy on Pakistan, claims IT biz

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Ha! Is this news to them? Of course they would not honor a contract they can ignore. You can put as many contracts and multiple factors and audit trails as you want, if they want your trade secrets and you do a venture with them, I guess be happy for the short term money, but your IP will be gone.

Re: Huawei stole our tech and created a 'backdoor' to spy on Pakistan, claims IT biz

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Why do they need backdoors to spy on Pakistan, when they have the "front door?" Pakistan's biggest cellphone provider is China Mobile

Pakistan and China have been getting progressively closer/interrelated, and more antagonistic to India. I suppose it could be infrastructure. China loves to spy on allies/their own.

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post #4

Why do they need backdoors to spy on Pakistan, when they have the "front door?" Pakistan's biggest cellphone provider is China Mobile

Pakistan and China have been getting progressively closer/interrelated, and more antagonistic to India. I suppose it could be infrastructure. China loves to spy on allies/their own.

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> According to the complaint, authorities in Pakistan invited various companies to submit proposals, including Motorola, Nokia, and Huawei

This sounds surprising, are Motorola and Nokia really in the police IT systems business? The common factor among the 3 companies seems to be that they make mobile phone related things.

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> According to the complaint, authorities in Pakistan invited various companies to submit proposals, including Motorola, Nokia, and Huawei This sounds surprising, are Motorola and Nokia really in the police IT systems business? The common factor among the 3 companies seems to be that they make mobile phone related things.

Motorola sold their phone business to Google, Nokia sold there’s to Microsoft, Nokia then sold their name to a Chinese phone company and are just involved in telecommunication equipment these days, so is Motorola it seems.
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