Re: Fwd: [IP] N.S.A. Breached Chinese Servers Seen as Security Threat

Or so they always said.... I believe the Cisco gear may be doing the same
but since that may be for the US it may pass unnoticed...

Akshay

On Sunday, 23 March 2014, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote:

> So any huawei gear installed on customer premises is potentially
> backdoored?
>
> --srs (iPad)
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> *From:* Dave Farber <dave-skGKvZKd2/[email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dave-skGKvZKd2/[email protected]');>
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> *Date:* 23 March 2014 0:16:06 IST
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> *Subject:* *[IP] N.S.A. Breached Chinese Servers Seen as Security Threat*
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> Date: Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:09 PM
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> Threat
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> N.S.A. Breached Chinese Servers Seen as Security Threat
> By DAVID E. SANGER and NICOLE PERLROTH
> Mar 22 2014
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/nsa-breached-chinese-servers-seen-as-spy-peril.html
> >
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> WASHINGTON -- American officials have long considered Huawei, the Chinese
> telecommunications giant, a security threat, blocking it from business
> deals in the United States for fear that the company would create "back
> doors" in its equipment that could allow the Chinese military or
> Beijing-backed hackers to steal corporate and government secrets.
>
> But even as the United States made a public case about the dangers of
> buying from Huawei, classified documents show that the National Security
> Agencywas creating its own back doors -- directly into Huawei's networks.
>
> The agency pried its way into the servers in Huawei's sealed headquarters
> in Shenzhen, China's industrial heart, according to N.S.A. documents
> provided by the former contractor Edward J. Snowden. It obtained
> information about the workings of the giant routers and complex digital
> switches that Huawei boasts connect a third of the world's population, and
> monitored communications of the company's top executives.
>
> One of the goals of the operation, code-named "Shotgiant," was to find any
> links between Huawai and the People's Liberation Army, one 2010 document
> made clear. But the plans went further: to exploit Huawai's technology so
> that when the company sold equipment to other countries -- including both
> allies and nations that avoid buying American products -- the N.S.A. could
> roam through their computer and telephone networks to conduct surveillance
> and, if ordered by the president, offensive cyberoperations.
>
> "Many of our targets communicate over Huawei-produced products," the
> N.S.A. document said. "We want to make sure that we know how to exploit
> these products," it added, to "gain access to networks of interest" around
> the world.
>
> The documents were disclosed by The New York Times and Der Spiegel, and
> are also part of a book by Der Spiegel, "The N.S.A. Complex." The
> documents, as well as interviews with intelligence officials, offer new
> insights into the United States' escalating digital cold war with Beijing.
> While President Obama and China's president, Xi Jinping, have begun talks
> about limiting the cyber conflict, it appears to be intensifying.
>
> The N.S.A., for example, is tracking more than 20 Chinese hacking groups --
> more than half of them Chinese Army and Navy units -- as they break into the
> networks of the United States government, companies including Google, and
> drone and nuclear-weapon part makers, according to a half-dozen current and
> former American officials.
>
> If anything, they said, the pace has increased since the revelation last
> year that some of the most aggressive Chinese hacking originated at a
> People's Liberation Army facility, Unit 61398, in Shanghai.
>
> The Obama administration distinguishes between the hacking and corporate
> theft that the Chinese conduct against American companies to buttress their
> own state-run businesses, and the intelligence operations that the United
> States conducts against Chinese and other targets.
>
> American officials have repeatedly said that the N.S.A. breaks into
> foreign networks only for legitimate national security purposes.
>
> A White House spokeswoman, Caitlin M. Hayden, said: "We do not give
> intelligence we collect to U.S. companies to enhance their international
> competitiveness or increase their bottom line. Many countries cannot say
> the same."
>
> But that does not mean the American government does not conduct its own
> form of corporate espionage with a different set of goals. Those concerning
> Huawei were described in the 2010 document.
>
> "If we can determine the company's plans and intentions," an analyst
> wrote, "we hope that this will lead us back to the plans and intentions of
> the PRC," referring to the People's Republic of China. The N.S.A. saw an
> additional opportunity: As Huawei invested in new technology and laid
> undersea cables to connect its $40 billion-a-year networking empire, the
> agency was interested in tunneling into key Chinese customers, including
> "high priority targets -- Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kenya, Cuba."
>
> [snip]
>
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