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There isn't any hard evidence at this time to back up any claims that Huawei phones are a threat to personal or national security. It's just a lot of smoke from Washington. Ironically, the only known hacking we know of that's closely related to Huawei wasn't done by the company or the Chinese government, but by the NSA.
In , it was revealed the NSA had made a program called "Shotgiant" that created backdoors into Huawei-made networking equipment in order to monitor communications around the world and find ties between the Chinese company and China's People's Liberation Army. Per the New York Times :. Two years after Shotgiant became a major program, the House Intelligence Committee delivered an unclassified report on Huawei and another Chinese company, ZTE, that cited no evidence confirming the suspicions about Chinese government ties.
Just imagine if any other government said this.
For example, imagine if the Chinese government accused Apple's iPhones of spying on its citizens even though there's no evidence to suggest so. It then bans iPhones and labels Apple as untrustworthy because it could be working with, say, the NSA, to monitor Chinese communications. Would that be fair?
Of course not. In , it was discovered that Adups, a Chinese-based software company that sells firmware to third-party Android makers like Blu, had included software that would send a person's text messages to a Chinese server every 72 hours.
The tracking software was intended for an unnamed Chinese phone maker, but was not intended for American phones. Blu had the spyware removed, but it's unclear if other phone makers like Huawei and ZTE who also reportedly use Adups' software also removed it from their devices. And which phones have the spyware if they're still present on phones?
We've reached out to Huawei for clarification. Huawei has always maintained that it's an "independent private company wholly owned by its employees," but any ounce of suspicion unfounded or not hurts its business, not just in the U. When can we expect to see the first self-adhesive phone to ship to Kickstarter backers?
The initial deliveries should happen in September of this year. The best part is that the Kickstarter ongoing campaign means you can reserve one now and help fund the whacky idea at an affordable price. That's a good price for a budget phone, never mind one with novelty features. We really liked the ZTE Axon 7 from a year ago for its flagship features at an affordable price.
This phone is even cheaper and includes surprises no one saw coming. Select the missing device from your list of phones.
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Click "Locate" to spot the phone on a map. A word of note: If your phone is stolen and it appears somewhere it shouldn't be, you can try to use this data when you report the stolen phone to the police.
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