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March 22, 2014 06:19 pm -07

NSA Hacked and Spied on Huawei, Snowden Documents Say

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The NSA has been conducting a sophisticated years-long operation against Chinese tech company Huawei, including hacking into its networks, and spying on the companies' top executives, according to reports based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden.

The spy agency launched operation "Shotgiant" in 2007, hacking into Huawei's main servers in Shenzhen, according to The New York Times and German news magazine Der Spiegel

See also: How TED Got Edward Snowden and the NSA Deputy Director Onstage

The operation had multiple goals. First, infiltrate a company that is the world's third-largest smartphone maker, and has become a major player in the global-networking market. Huawei makes both routers and other hardware that constitute the backbone of the Internet, as well as fiber-optic cables that connect Asia and Africa Read more...

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