There is an interesting story about the Citizen Lab, part of the University of Toronto. Citizen Lab has done good work looking at a number of state-sponsored hacking efforts all over the world. One of those must have hit home.
It looks like the Israelis did not like what was being said about NSO, an Israeli security company. They tried to get a couple of employees at Citizen Lab to say they hated Israel or distrusted Israel for some reason. They are fortunate the guys picked up on their contacts (in person and on-line) and reported them. They should have given it to RCMP and let these people be arrested.
Saturday, March 2, 2019
Friday, March 1, 2019
Huawei Tries, but Fails to Convince
Huawei's Chief Security Officer, Andy Purdy, was on Fox Business today trying to explain why Huawei was not a risk to those buying their equipment. Fox was not very kind to him, pointing out that he says he has members of the Chinese Communist Party on the Board, something unavoidable in China, and Huawei "has never had a security incident" in any country. Everyone on Fox's panel laughed at that.
He did say one thing that bothered me, his claim that Telecom providers do the security for networks and nothing Huawei could do would undo that. That is preposterous. If Huawei is making its equipment to benefit the Chinese intelligence services, there is very little a telecom can do to stop that information going back to China. The network traffic has been diverted 3 or 4 times in the last couple of years. That does not even speak to the individual servers sending information back to China.
The US intelligence community knows exactly what Huawei is doing. The New York Times published a series of David Sanger articles on this and it is clear our government knows what they are doing. It is worse than anyone from Huawei could ever overcome. They were better off when they said nothing.
He did say one thing that bothered me, his claim that Telecom providers do the security for networks and nothing Huawei could do would undo that. That is preposterous. If Huawei is making its equipment to benefit the Chinese intelligence services, there is very little a telecom can do to stop that information going back to China. The network traffic has been diverted 3 or 4 times in the last couple of years. That does not even speak to the individual servers sending information back to China.
The US intelligence community knows exactly what Huawei is doing. The New York Times published a series of David Sanger articles on this and it is clear our government knows what they are doing. It is worse than anyone from Huawei could ever overcome. They were better off when they said nothing.
Plagiarism in China's Leadership
The Financial Times had an article yesterday saying they had reviewed 10 on-line PhD theses of the Chinese Politburo ( not all of them had their theses on line) and found plagiarism in three of them. That is a pretty high rate, even if it is a small sample.
I wish the academic communities of the world did more reviews of plagiarism in its colleges and universities. China is certainly not the only example of senior officials getting a degree using someone else's work. These are academic cheaters. You would think a university would do a little checking since the work has to be reviewed by graduate professors. They should know that the words are a little too familiar and need to be checked.
This is not the same as buying a degree. I once sat on a contract award where we reviewed proposals. In one of them were six PhDs from the same university - that I had never heard of. I checked it out and talked to the contracting officer. She contacted the company and asked for an explanation in writing of the credentials of this university. They withdrew their proposal the next day, without explanation.
This is not just a Chinese problem but it is an indication of the real thought that went into the PhDs of some of the leaders. It is a fraud on the themselves and on the people they govern.
I wish the academic communities of the world did more reviews of plagiarism in its colleges and universities. China is certainly not the only example of senior officials getting a degree using someone else's work. These are academic cheaters. You would think a university would do a little checking since the work has to be reviewed by graduate professors. They should know that the words are a little too familiar and need to be checked.
This is not the same as buying a degree. I once sat on a contract award where we reviewed proposals. In one of them were six PhDs from the same university - that I had never heard of. I checked it out and talked to the contracting officer. She contacted the company and asked for an explanation in writing of the credentials of this university. They withdrew their proposal the next day, without explanation.
This is not just a Chinese problem but it is an indication of the real thought that went into the PhDs of some of the leaders. It is a fraud on the themselves and on the people they govern.
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