(Image via CNET)We can be sure of something: the Government of the United States "spies" in one way or another, due to leakage current handed out by former contractor of the Agency of national security of the United States Edward Snowden.
Huawei, despite having the collective finger of the U.S. Congress led by alleged similar behavior continues to deny that it has a role in surveillance or espionage activities.
In the latest missive from the Chinese telecommunications equipment supplier, Huawei Vice President Ken Hu offered two clear statements [PDF] by denying any involvement in any nefarious government spying:
"We can confirm that we have never received requests or instructions from any Government or public bodies to change our positions, policies, procedures, hardware, software or employment practices or something else, apart from the suggestions to improve our ability of cyber-to-end security."
And in part two:
"We can confirm that they have never asked us to have access to our technology, or to provide any data or information about any citizen or organization for any Government or its agencies."
That's about as direct as one can get. There is a small catch, at least on the U.S. side of things.
Under the two main secret and appropriation of data - the Patriot Act and the law of surveillance laws foreign intelligence (FISA) - Huawei can not come to the State if it was or was not under an order of the Government.
Why is Verizon, which we know that it is under a request for massive surveillance of Government (not least because some of it declassified United States Director of national intelligence James Clapper), refused to comment on whether the warrant will challenge it as many other companies have done a few weeks ago to ZDNet.
But the United States is not it's China - in particular China spying on us firms, which was all the fuss caused by members of the US Congress in 2012.
Last year, the United States House Intelligence Committee letters issued to Huawei and ZTE telecommunications giants stating that United States Government concerns about their connections and ties with the Chinese Government. Representative Dutch Ruppersberger (D - MD) said in the letter that the Committee was "concerned" the Chinese authorities could hacking or trying to break chains of United States through their telecommunications intermediaries.
Subsequently, U.S. companies were warned using the technology of the company, together with ZTE, which was also thrown into the mix.
The irony is under the assistance of United States communications for the application of the law, U.S. companies are required to comply with "tailgate rules" allowing federal authorities to have access to the equipment for espionage purposes telephone.
Hu took one last swipe at the United States, that all, but is prohibited from:
".. .questioned us the incoherence of the message which saw some Governments criticize those who do not agree with or those who were competing with their own businesses, while at the same time buy zero-day attacks and using technology to boost its own economic and political ends at the expense of others.
Earlier this year, a special report by Reuters said that the Government of the United States was the largest buyer of malware worldwide as your cyber arsenal led him in efforts to "fight" against those who point their networks.
And that was just one month before the NSA Ding-Dong all public light.
After this, documents confirmed that the United States espionage agency bought hacking tools from French firm Vupen, which allowed the Government federal to seize for zero-day vulnerabilities exploits target systems that have not found or patched by the vendor.
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