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@ 2020/02/18US's most recent "proof" of Chinese "spying."
Huawei and its Santa Clara-based subsidiary Futurewei stole trade secrets from San Jose tech giant Cisco and used them to copy Cisco routers, the US government claims.
Apparently, the reason there is a lack of evidence for the stolen source code is that those pesky Chinese remotely wiped the code from the routers afterwards.
According to the San Jose Mercury News, Huawei and its Silicon Valley subsidiary stole operating system code and other data needed to make routers, and used the pilfered secrets to make Huawei-branded routers sold in the US.
The indictment also alleges that five other unnamed U.S. firms were targeted. Cisco is not mentioned by name in the indictment, is called "Company 1."
But the indictment cites a lawsuit filed in Texas against Futurewei and Huawei over the alleged router-data theft.
The indictment alleges that when the Texas litigation started, Futurewei and Huawei claimed to have already removed misappropriated code from products, and recalled routers containing that code.
Huawei and its Santa Clara-based subsidiary Futurewei stole trade secrets from San Jose tech giant Cisco and used them to copy Cisco routers, the US government claims.
Apparently, the reason there is a lack of evidence for the stolen source code is that those pesky Chinese remotely wiped the code from the routers afterwards.
According to the San Jose Mercury News, Huawei and its Silicon Valley subsidiary stole operating system code and other data needed to make routers, and used the pilfered secrets to make Huawei-branded routers sold in the US.
The indictment also alleges that five other unnamed U.S. firms were targeted. Cisco is not mentioned by name in the indictment, is called "Company 1."
But the indictment cites a lawsuit filed in Texas against Futurewei and Huawei over the alleged router-data theft.
The indictment alleges that when the Texas litigation started, Futurewei and Huawei claimed to have already removed misappropriated code from products, and recalled routers containing that code.
