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Report reveals how CIA has been stealing data of over 120 countries for decades, yet they blames Huawei
Wow, there’s big news just came out regarding the US intelligence agency – CIA and how it was working discreetly to spy on other countries for a long time. While the U.S. alleges Huawei for such crimes.
A report from Washington Post reveals how the CIA used an encryption company – Crypto AG based in Switzerland, to spy on other countries for decades and even robbed its own allies’ secret data such as information regarding spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.
Crypto Ag, got famous with an official contract with U.S. troops to build code-making machines during World War 2 and later became the dominant maker of encryption devices highly trusted by many customers.
According to the source, this encryption firm sold equipment to over 120 countries including Iran, military juntas in Latin America, Indian, Pakistan, and the Vatican.
But none of these customers knew that the Crypto AG was secretly owned by the CIA in a “highly classified partnership” with West German intelligence.
How do they break secret codes of other countries?
Well, these spy agencies customized/installing backdoor in the company’s devices so they could easily break the codes that countries used to send encrypted messages and unfold them for their own use.
This classified information was obtained jointly by Washington Post and ZDF, a German public broadcaster.
Furthermore, the information describes how the U.S. and its allies exploited other nation’s gullibility for years and taking their money while stealing their secret data.
This whole data-stealing operation known first by the code name “Thesaurus” and later “Rubicon”.
“It was the intelligence coup of the century,” the CIA report concludes. “Foreign governments were paying good money to the U.S. and West Germany for the privilege of having their most secret communications read by at least two (and possibly as many as five or six) foreign countries.”
From 1970, the CIA and National Security Agency (NSA), controlled nearly every aspect of Crypto’s operations along with their German partners over new plans, designing its technology, sabotaging its algorithms and directing its sales targets.
The setup shows how the secret agency got a hold of precious data of almost every country around the globe for ages and sold it for its good.
False allegation on Huawei:
The U.S. has been continuously blaming Huawei for stealing customers’ data with its network equipment and banned the company from doing business with US companies.
Moreover, the US administration is also forcing its allies to drop the Chinese tech giant from 5G development projects but Huawei has repeatedly denied these allegations saying that these based on fictions and not based on evidence.
Recently, Huawei has organized a “Genius Youth Program” for the recruitment of Genius employees. The company achieved its goal in the event by hiring two of the Genius boys. These candidates are doctoral graduates from the Telecommunications Department of the Xi’an Jiaotong University.
The recruitment plan of Huawei for Genius employees has been in the tech environment for a long while. Earlier, the company hired a doctoral graduate from Fudan University for its Genius bar. Now the official WeChat webpage of the firm highlights the launch of a new round for the Genius employees.
Eligibility Criteria
Although the recruitment plan for the Genius employees does not demand any specific origin or institute to graduate from. Neither the company limits the qualifications. But it asks the applicants to meet some major points for the tech sector.
According to the latest news, interested candidates must fulfill some requirements to become the Genius employees of the Chinese firm. For instance, the applicant must have special achievements in mathematics, computers, physics, intelligent manufacturing, chemistry, and other technology-related fields.
Employees Benefits
According to the recruitment schedule, Huawei offers world-class challenging topics, Daniel consultants, global vision, platforms, and resources. Apart from the virtues, the most tempting benefit is the in-hand amount that goes 5 times the salary.
The report further states that the salary of the “Genius employees” will be in motion according to the annual salary system. There are three grades, and the maximum salary is 2.01 million yuan.
The Chinese firm has informed sometime in the past that it is focusing to hire a maximum of 26,000 freshers in 2020-2021. Out of these numbers, at least 300 will take the position of Genius bar at the company. This year, the company aims to cover more than 10,000 fresh faces.
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Huawei CCF Computer system federation 2022, Software Engineering Populus euphratica fund storage special engineering project has been officially revealed for young and talented engineers.
According to the information, the 2022 CCF-Huawei Populus euphratica Fund-Storage Special Project is a technical breakpoint for improving the technical capabilities of software engineering and solving major technical bottlenecks.
Together with CCF-Huawei Populus euphratica Fund specializes in projects in software engineering in making products, platforms, and solutions more competitive and creating industrial value.
Research with the industry is a step towards leading research and supporting talented engineers. The survey identified eight topics:
- Defect repair pattern mining technology based on code big data analysis
- Data-driven, efficient, open-source vulnerability mining technology
- Classification and localization method of the root cause of flake test
- Root cause localization algorithm based on polymorphic failure log
- Resource scheduling technology that is conscious of service functions
- Knowledge graph for R & D data Entity-relationship recognition and fusion technology
- Code defect detection technology on open application platforms
- Consortium Blockchain’s new smart contract language
CCF-The Huawei Populus euphratica Fund, launched by CCF and Huawei purpose is to support excellent young researchers at home and abroad to connect industrial practice and academic research issues by building an industry-academy collaboration platform and to build a frontier for industry development the integration.
The interested applicant has a deadline of up to June 30, 2022, and should not forget to include questions in the subject. It currently covers fields including with a cumulative investment of tens of millions of yuan:
- Software engineering
- Databases
- Formal methods
- High-performance computer
- System software, blockchain
- Information storage
- Reliable computer
The above-mentioned field includes the Huawei and the Chinese computer society that opened the Software Engineering Populus euphratica fund storage special project
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Huawei has joined the list of the network key equipment security which is rolling the fifth batch at the moment. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has declared the onset of the next round of the network security program. Various tech makers are finding their spots in this list. Apparently, Huawei is one of them.
Alongside Huawei, several manufacturers are on the list of network key equipment security. For instance, Cisco, Nokia Bell, Ruijie, Siemens, and more. Further, these industries have submitted a given number of devices in this program for issuing the security certification.
Aim of Network Key Equipment Security Program
As described, several tech giants have participated in this program. Moreover, some 21 devices of these companies were eligible to undergo the testing tasks of network key equipment and security special products. Consequently, after the completion of the tests, the Ministry has released the result of these devices that became eligible for security certificates.
Lists of Companies:
Here is the number of devices that each company is bringing on the inspecting surface:
- Huawei: 2 devices
- Cisco: 8 devices
- Nokia Bell: 1 device
- Ruijie: 4 devices
- H3C: 1 device
- Siemens: 5 devices
These are some of the eligible firms for the program. Furthermore, the qualified sectors will proceed as per the commands of the “General Requirements for National Critical Equipment Security” (GB40050-2021) leaflet.
The first batch that took place in the past has displayed the list of organizations undertaking the security certification for the National Critical Equipment and Security Products. As for now, the company has continued the program with certified gadgets.
The respective ministry will announce the new and mandatory standards that could meet the requirements in the time ahead.
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