U.S. Democratic candidates told not to use ZTE, Huawei devices - source

 

FILE PHOTO: A ZTE smart phone is pictured in this illustration taken April 17, 2018. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/Illustration/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic National Committee warned party candidates running in November elections not to use devices made by Chinese telecommunications companies ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies because they pose a security risk, a Democratic source said on Friday.

 

U.S. lawmakers and the Trump administration have pressured U.S. companies to not sell Huawei or ZTE products, saying they potentially could be used to spy on Americans. Earlier this year they pushed AT&T to drop a deal with Huawei to sell its smartphones in the United States. 

 

The source said Bob Lord, the DNC's chief security officer, said in a email that it was important for party and campaign workers to be vigilant about the warnings.

 

"Please make sure that you are not using or purchasing ZTE or Huawei devices anywhere within your staff - for personal or work-related use," Lord said.

 

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai told Congress in March he shared the concerns of U.S. lawmakers about espionage threats from Huawei.

 

"Hidden ‘back doors’ to our networks in routers, switches - and virtually any other type of telecommunications equipment - can provide an avenue for hostile governments to inject viruses, launch denial-of-service attacks, steal data, and more," Pai said at the time.

 

The U.S. Department of Defense has already stopped selling mobile phones and modems made by Huawei and ZTE in stores on its military bases, citing potential security risks.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-08-04

Ajit Pai seems to be growing back his spine?

 

tRUmp will probably ax him soon. 

Chinese are gonna love this.

But there again I would warn anybody not to use any device that runs MS Windows as the Americans may be spying on them...

Did this news arrive via carrier pigeon?

I read an article about avoiding Huawei products a month ago.

 

Or has my Huawei router been hacked and it's resending data?

 

Was ZTE the firm Trump rushed to help, citing & tweeting importance of Chinese jobs. I could be wrong, there is so much crud flying thru the air it is hard to keep up. We're way past being up to our ass in alligators

Why didn't they mention xiaomi, vivo, oppo or oneplus?

 

 

4 hours ago, Basil B said:

But there again I would warn anybody not to use any device that runs MS Windows as the Americans may be spying on them...

The Wikileaks revelation platform released new secret-classified documents, showing how the NSA evaluated talks between UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Angela Merkel in 2008, among others. In addition, the US secret service spied on the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in conversation with the then Italian head of state Silvio Berlusconi. Talks between Japanese and German diplomats and clashes between Berlusconi, Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy were also intercepted.

The Chinese simply copy (the same behavior).

1 hour ago, Emster23 said:

Was ZTE the firm Trump rushed to help, citing & tweeting importance of Chinese jobs. I could be wrong, there is so much crud flying thru the air it is hard to keep up. We're way past being up to our ass in alligators

Yes it was, coincidentally after the Chinese government invested $500 million in a Trump branded property in Indonesia.  

4 hours ago, Basil B said:

But there again I would warn anybody not to use any device that runs MS Windows as the Americans may be spying on them...

Particularly win 10.

I was amazed at what it is doing until you switch off certain 'options'. 

Keylogging and sending everything to Microsoft.  If you haven't done anything yet go to YouTube and a guy walks you through the process step by step. 

Quite scary really that this is an opt in function by default and not opt in by choice. 

5 minutes ago, tryasimight said:

Particularly win 10.

I was amazed at what it is doing until you switch off certain 'options'. 

Keylogging and sending everything to Microsoft.  If you haven't done anything yet go to YouTube and a guy walks you through the process step by step. 

Quite scary really that this is an opt in function by default and not opt in by choice. 

That the big US software companies spying on their users is known.
It's just getting more and more.
Google, Facebook and Microsoft are Right in front here.

4 minutes ago, tomacht8 said:

That the big US software companies spying on their users is known.
It's just getting more and more.
Google, Facebook and Microsoft are Right in front here.

So blatant... I was really surprised. 

58 minutes ago, Ks45672 said:

Why didn't they mention xiaomi, vivo, oppo or oneplus?

 

 

Why just them and not Apple and Google et al who source their products from the same manufacturing plants/production lines.  Same threats etc.

Well, Democrats say also E-cigarettes are a trick but big tobacco to hook up youths with nicotine [emoji23] What a bunch of degenerated losers.

Sent from a so called Smartphone using an App.

7 hours ago, Emster23 said:

Was ZTE the firm Trump rushed to help, citing & tweeting importance of Chinese jobs. I could be wrong, there is so much crud flying thru the air it is hard to keep up. We're way past being up to our ass in alligators

  Right you are.

Quote the Great Orange One:

This is a direct decree via the regal info source:

 

And here is an article about it from what is probably the most famously conservative periodical in the U.S
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/china-contributing-500-million-trump-linked-project-indonesia/

 

This might be the torpedo that sinks the ship.  Too damned obvious as well: one moment China is an an economic threat, the next "let's help China save jobs."  Even his dumbest fans should be able to see through that one (yeah, right!).