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Digital cold war: Documents show the National Security Agency has been monitoring information about the workings of Huawei. Photo: Bloomberg
Washington: United States officials have long considered Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, a security threat, blocking it from business deals in the US for fear that the company would create "back doors" in its equipment that could allow the Chinese military or Beijing-backed hackers to steal corporate and government secrets.
But even as the US made a public case about the dangers of buying from Huawei, classified documents show the National Security Agency was creating its own back doors - directly into Huawei's networks.
The agency pried its way into the servers in Huawei's sealed headquarters in Shenzen, China's industrial heart, according to NSA documents provided by former contractor Edward Snowden.
Huawei: The NSA created back doors into the Chinese company's networks, leaked documents show. Photo: Bloomberg
It obtained information about the workings of the giant routers and complex digital switches that Huawei boasts connect one-third of the world's population, and monitored communications of the company's top executives.
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One of the goals of the operation, code-named "Shotgiant", was to find any links between Huawei and the People's Liberation Army, one 2010 document made clear.
But the plans went further: to exploit Huawei's technology so that when the company sells equipment to other countries - including US allies and nations that avoid buying US products - the NSA can roam through their computer and telephone networks to conduct surveillance and, if ordered by the president, offensive cyberoperations.
"Many of our targets communicate over Huawei-produced products,'' the NSA document said. "We want to make sure that we know how to exploit these products," it added, to "gain access to networks of interest" around the world.
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Legislative overhaul: Under the Obama administration's proposal, the National Security Agency could obtain specific records only with permission from a judge, using a new kind of court order. Photo: AFP
Washington: The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal for a far-reaching overhaul of the National Security Agencys once-secret bulk phone records program in a way that if approved by Congress would end the aspect that has most alarmed privacy advocates since its existence was leaked last year, according to senior administration officials.
Under the proposal, they said, the NSA would end its systematic collection of data about Americans calling habits. The records would stay in the hands of phone companies, which would not be required to retain the data for any longer than normal. And the NSA could obtain specific records only with permission from a judge, using a new kind of court order.
In a speech in January, US President Barack Obama said he wanted to get the NSA out of the business of collecting call records in bulk while preserving the programs capabilities. He acknowledged, however, that there was no easy way to do so and had instructed Justice Department and intelligence officials to come up with a plan by March 28, this Friday, when the current court order authorising the program expires.
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As part of the proposal, the administration has decided to ask the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to renew the program as it currently exists for at least one more 90-day cycle, senior administration officials said. But under the plan the administration has developed and now advocates, the officials said, it would late undergo major changes.
The new surveillance court orders envisioned by the administration would require phone companies to swiftly provide records in a technologically compatible data format, including making available, on a continuing basis, data about any new calls placed or received after the order is received, the officials said.
They would also allow the government to seek related records for callers up to two calls, or "hops", removed from the number that has come under suspicion, even if those callers are customers of other companies.
The NSA now retains the phone data for five years. But the administration considered and rejected imposing a mandate on phone companies that they hold onto their customers calling records for longer than the 18 months that federal regulations already generally require a burden that the companies had resisted and that was seen as a major obstacle to keeping the data in their hands. A senior administration official said that intelligence agencies had concluded that the impact of that change would be small because older data is less important.
The NSA uses the once-secret call records program sometimes known as the 215 program, after Section 215 of the Patriot Act to analyse links between callers in an effort to identify hidden terrorist associates, if they exist. It was part of the secret surveillance program that then president George W. Bush unilaterally put in place after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, outside of any legal framework or court oversight.
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EU institutions have finally got the memo about it being a good idea to pinpoint and fix security vulnerabilities.
Next year the European Parliament has allocated up to 1m for a project to audit free software programs in use at the European Commission (EC) and the EU Parliament in order to find and repair potential weaknesses.
A further 500,000 is being made available to work on encrypting communications among EU institutions.
Free Software Foundation Europe president Karsten Gerloff, said it was good to see the institutions investing at least a little in improving the quality and the programs they use.
However, he added that to make the best use of their efforts, institutions should work closely with upstream developers and make audit results public as soon as possible.
John Sullivan, executive director, Free Software Foundation, said: Free software cannot guarantee your security, and in certain situations may appear less secure on specific vectors than some proprietary programs. As was widely agreed in the aftermath of the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, the solution is not to trade one security bug for the very deep insecurity inherently created by proprietary software - the solution is to put energy and resources into auditing and improving free programs.
The EC runs its IT on more than 350 Linux servers. All new web applications are protected by an open source-based solution for authentication, currently serving more than 300 existing web applications, more than 60,000 users and performing more than 10,000,000 authentications on a yearly basis with more than 17,000 different users every day, according to the commishs informatics department (DG DIGIT).
Within the EC's IT network an open source-based developer collaboration platform hosts more than 770 projects accessed by more than 3,000 developers.
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