Chinese spies + US spies with NSA & GCHQ Snoop The Internet

[Nige_40]

China could spy on British citizens and firms through its supply of broadband equipment to UK telecoms giants, Parliament’s intelligence watchdog has warned.
MPs on the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) said they had serious concerns about the internet deals signed by BT and O2 with the Chinese telecoms firm Huawei.
China could ‘intercept covertly or disrupt traffic passing through Huawei-supplied networks’, their report said, adding that oversight of the firm in the UK is ‘feeble’ and suffers from the ‘absence of any strategy’.

Huawei supplies mobile handsets, routers and equipment in telephone exchanges and street cabinets to a string of British telecoms companies.
So scathing was the report that George Osborne, the Chancellor, yesterday took the unusual step of issuing a statement in response to the ISC’s findings, stressing the importance of Chinese investment in Britain.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336448/Chinese-spies-use-web-equipment-sold-UK-firms-espionage-opportunity-MPs-warn.html#ixzz2VYAkwdGe

 

[Ink]

RE: China's 'espionage opportunity'

I thought the Huawei Ascend W1 going for £99.99 was too good to be true.

 

[tapoo]

RE: Chinese spies could use equipment sold to UK firms

this is nothing new, India also suspected such thing before.........

http://intelnews.org/2010/05/11/02-315/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_intelligence_activity_abroad

India has quietly informed companies to avoid using Chinese-made telecommunications equipment, fearing that it may have spy capabilities embedded within it. Also, India's intelligence service, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) believes that China is using dozens of study centers that it has set up in Nepal near the Indian border in part for the purposes of spying on India.[20][21] In August 2011 a Chinese research vessel disguised as a fishing trawler was detected off the coast of Little Andaman, collecting data in a geostrategically sensitive region.[22][23]

The "Luckycat" hacking campaign that targeted Japan and Tibet also targeted India.[24][25] A Trojan horse was inserted into a Microsoft Word file ostensibly about India's ballistic missile defense program, allowing for the command and control servers to connect and extract information. The attacks were subsequently traced back to a Chinese graduate student from Sichuan and the Chinese government is suspected of planning the attacks.[26]

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[Nige_40]

RE: Chinese spies could use web equipment sold to UK firms as espionage opportunity

Yeah I did hear something like that Tapoo.

I seen yesterday on Twitter and Main news today that both Google and Facebook where getting inspecting by NSA and GCHQ
both GEOs where not happy that they where snooping around.

An Update below
Info here > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22827368

 

[Nige_40]

I've updated the main post.