All Huaweia s spies

In Huawei's case, equipment, security hatches and spies are not important. The ongoing discussion concerns above all the moral evaluation of the company and the trust that it can bestow. And with this is a growing problem.

The accusations against Huawei in July were again on the rise. The company doubles up to show that it is still a giant capable of transferring data, but despite the great financial results, it is enveloped in a shadow of uncertainty. A shadow that takes on the shape of dangerous backdoors, the economic dominance of the Middle Kingdom and dangerous Chinese spies.

Poland

This was the first blow this year for Huaweia's image. In January, a company employee was arrested in Poland. ABW arrested Weijing W. and Piotr D. suspected of spying for the Middle Kingdom. The first was one of the directors of the Polish branch of the company, the other is a former officer of the Internal Security Agency.

Huawei cut himself off quickly and dismissed his employee. The company has tried a lot since then to somehow fix its strained image, but over time it was only worse and worse. An avalanche of bad news grew every month.

Czech Republic

Finally, on July 22, the Czech radio published another disturbing news with the specter of espionage in the background. Their journalist reached two former company managers who claim that they collected personal information about clients and officials taking part in trips or conferences organized by the company. They were to question and then scrupulously record what they had learned, for example, about the number of children or hobbies of their superiors. Data was sent to headquarters in China, and also shared with employees of the Chinese embassy.

The Czechs have already informed about the strange behavior of the company earlier . Last December, the Czech National Office for Cybernetic and Information Security (NUKIB) issued a statement in which he called the Chinese company a threat to national security. Just a few days later, a special session of the State Security Council was convened by Prime Minister Andrej Babis, who tried to mitigate the situation. The Council pointed out to him that common users should not be warned by warning and it only applies to the critical infrastructure of the state.

However, according to the findings of the Czech radio counterintelligence, he was supposed to organize training in language retention and protection of personal information not only directed to politicians, but also to businessmen.

Huawei denies that he crossed the law, gathering information about politicians or clients.

North Korea

Reports from the Czech Republic are not the only ones that the company had to explain this month. The Washington Post, on the same day as the Czech radio, reported that the Chinese giant for eight years helped the North Korean regime to create and maintain a commercial wireless network. And although this is at least morally ambiguous, it's not just about ethics. Tegu-type help could break US sanctions, because Huawei uses components from American companies. This would not be the first time a Chinese giant has been accused of breaking sanctions. In the United States, the matter of violation of Iranian sanctions is being investigated.

After reports from the Washington Post, Huawei announced in a statement that he is not engaged in economic activities in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

United States

Even before entering the company on the famous blacklist , it had quite a few problems in the United States . The local communication networks did not want to accept the company's phones to their offer, and state-owned entities were prohibited from using its equipment. The states to introduce similar restrictions have persuaded their allies - Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

But although the United States has already declared that they see Huawei as a threat, Donald Trump has taken action against the Chinese company to a new level. After the president blacklisted her and forbade American corporations to trade with her, the company's future in the west was in doubt.

Because the American president is, however, a man who uncertainty prefers to multiply rather than dispel, the information coming from the White House regarding further adherence to the Chinese giant complicates the picture even more. In mid-July, we learned that the restrictions for Huaweia would be relaxed, then that only temporarily. To confuse his three cents he added the congress , working on a bipartisan law, which is to prevent the president from possibly deleting the company from the black list.

Is Huawei's equipment safe?

From the quoted stories emerges a picture of a company that does not hesitate to cooperate with the cruel regime of North Korea, collects information for spies from the People's Republic of China or even employs them themselves. There is, however, one very important piece of the puzzle - equipment that would be used to spy on us and proof that it exists at all.

It is worth realizing that if Huawei is not so much a company as it defends the Chinese, then 5G to keep the West in check is actually unnecessary. Although the average user associates the Chinese giant mainly with smartphones, our telecommunications infrastructure has long been based largely on its devices. Huawei provides transmitters, switches, routers on which our networks operate. The company just to defend itself against allegations of espionage, provides the source code of its products. If anyone caught her eavesdropping, it would be her end of her career all over the world .

Only that even such action does not guarantee anyone 100 percent. good night. Theoretically, on a completely innocent and safe equipment, the company can still introduce malware using automatic updates. The problem is that these are also necessary for the safe operation of the equipment and here the wheel closes.

It is not a story about what is in the equipment or code, it is a story about trust, predicting the future and divination from shadows.

The United States have failed to show hard evidence that using Huawei's equipment is dangerous, but that does not change anything. The ongoing dispute is not based on evidence and does not concern the past or the present. This is about the future.

Huawei raises concerns that he could follow, he could spy on, he could relay sensitive information to the Chinese government, and in the extreme case his devices could be used against us. The company's bosses reject such agonizing stressing that there is no basis for its previous activities and that all such activities would be business suicide for a private company.

Huaweia's shadow can spy and rule the Chinese Communist Party with a hard hand, but there may be nothing there, and the United States manipulates the light so that their business competitor suddenly appears threatening and frightening.

The struggle that continues is a struggle for opinion and our trust, not for facts, because we do not have access to them.

All Huaweia's spies