Huawei there are new accusations of espionage, and an investigation would show that Chinese employees would have helped two governments to spy on their citizens using the telecommunications equipment of the Chinese company. We are talking about the governments of Zambia and Uganda, two countries that do not matter much to the vast majority of the world, but if the accusations turn out to be real, then Huawei confirms everything the US says about it.
Huawei is accused of helping the Ugandan government to intercept encrypted messages sent by politicians who oppose the local "power", but also by bloggers who supported the change of the political regime. Moreover, Huawei is accused of helping the Zambian police to locate political opponents of the local government, the famous newspaper The Washington Post publishing the information, and of course a denial came from the Chinese.
Huawei ACCUSED of SPYING on Citizens for TWO GOVERNMENTS
Huawei employees would have used an Israeli spyware to enter a WhatsApp group and intercept the messages that were sent by the members who were organizing public demonstrations against the government, the leaders being arrested. In Zambia, Huawei technicians helped the government to access phones and Facebook pages of bloggers who supported the opposition, but also to locate them in order to be arrested by the police.
"Huawei, the world's largest telecommunications company, dominates African markets, where it has sold security tools that governments use for digital surveillance and censorship. But Huawei employees provided other services, which are not publicly disclosed. Technicians at the Chinese plant have, in at least two cases, personally helped African governments spy on their political opponents, including intercepting encrypted communications and social media and using cellular data to track people's locations."
The governments of Zambia and Uganda confirmed that they used Huawei technicians for everything they did, and that's how they made the Chinese liars, but we already know that they lie like they breathe, and for a very long time. Interestingly, the American newspaper says that it has no evidence that Huawei managers in China knew about the practices in Zambia and Uganda, but also that the equipment sold there have "access ports".
Despite this, since the governments of both countries say they used Huawei technicians to do everything the American newspaper explains, the Chinese denials are quite useless.
