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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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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.

And the west doesn't? XD

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

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Huawei is following their playbook from the Nortel days. Why would anyone expect them to stop doing what brought them to success?

Malicious Life made a great 3 episode podcast series on that.

https://www.cybereason.com/blog/malicious-life-podcast-china...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Huawei#Nortel

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

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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Motorola originally made car radios, and police radio systems were their biggest business for many years.

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

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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.

Chinas whole Asia strategy is focused on keeping india confined. No wonder - a young population, india has potentially its future still ahead of them.

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's biggest cellphone provider is China Mobile

pakistan's largest cell service provider is Mobilink, owned by an Egyptian company "Orascom", which in turn was bought by dutch based "Veon"

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's biggest cellphone provider is China Mobile pakistan's largest cell service provider is Mobilink, owned by an Egyptian company "Orascom", which in turn was bought by dutch based "Veon"

It worth checking numbers again. I felt that Zong has passed the Mobilink by subscriber numbers few years ago, especially with their internet offers as of late.
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