[ April 22, 2024 ]
On a side note, a group founded by far-left tech giants Google and IBM is working with a company that is helping China’s authoritarian government conduct mass surveillance against its citizens, The Intercept can reveal.
China Engaged in ‘Mass Surveillance’ on Americans’ Mobile Phones, Report Finds
The Chinese regime exploited vulnerabilities in the global mobile telecommunications network to conduct “mass surveillance” on Americans, according to a recent report by a cyber research firm.
By Cathy He, The Epoch Times, December 17, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementBy analyzing signals data, the report by Washington-based Exigent Media found that Beijing, working through state-owned telecom operator China Unicom, was the leading source of attacks against U.S. mobile users over 3G and 4G networks in 2018.
The regime exploited well-known network vulnerabilities, which allowed it to track, monitor, disrupt, and intercept communications of U.S. phone subscribers while they traveled abroad. The vulnerabilities are centered around the legacy mobile SS7 signaling system, described in the report as “a patchwork system enabling network operators around the world to communicate with each other for international roaming services.”
The Chinese cyberattacks targeted tens of thousands of U.S. mobile users from 2018 to 2020, Gary Miller, the report’s author and a former mobile network security executive, told The Guardian.
“Once you get into the tens of thousands, the attacks qualify as mass surveillance, which is primarily for intelligence collection and not necessarily targeting high-profile targets,” Miller said. “It might be that there are locations of interest, and these occur primarily while people are abroad.”
That the attacks were routed through a state-controlled operator indicates a state-sanctioned espionage campaign, Miller told the outlet.
The analyst also found that in 2018, two Caribbean operators were also involved in a series of attacks on U.S. phone users targeted by China Unicom, suggesting coordination between these networks. The two operators were Cable & Wireless Communications (Flow) in Barbados and the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC).
The report found that from 2019, attacks from China decreased, while those originating from the Caribbean networks shot up—suggesting that Beijing was attempting to mask its activities through foreign operators.
“China reduced its attack volumes, favoring more targeted espionage, likely using proxy networks in the Caribbean and Africa to conduct its attacks, having close ties in both trade and technology investment,” the report stated.
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Citing Beijing’s expanded investment in the Caribbean, such as Chinese telecom giant Huawei’s partnership with BTC on the Bahamas’ 4G rollout, the report questioned whether this indicated a “strategic signals intelligence alliance between China and the Caribbean.”
The report added it was likely that Caribbean operators have sold or leased network addresses to Chinese entities, allowing them to conduct espionage, potentially without the operators’ knowledge.
Cable & Wireless, the company that owns Flow and BTC, said in an emailed statement to The Epoch Times that it was “carefully reviewing the information in the media reports.”
The company added that it continuously monitors its networks across all its markets including Barbados and Bahamas and has “robust security policies and protocols in place to protect the data of our customers.”
China Unicom in a statement to The Epoch Times said it “strongly refutes the allegations that China Unicom has engaged in active surveillance attacks against U.S. mobile phone subscribers using access to international telecommunications networks.”
In April, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) warned that the U.S. operations of China Unicom and two other state-controlled telecoms could be shut down, citing national security risks.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said federal agencies were “deeply concerned” about the companies’ vulnerability to the “exploitation, influence, and control of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Report author Miller found that attacks on U.S. mobile users continued in 2020, originating from Chinese and Hong Kong sources, as well as other countries.
“Unfortunately, these attacks will continue globally between mobile operators until full accountability, reporting of the attacks, penalties, and control of external ‘partners and customers’ who are provided with access to networks are exercised,” Miller told The Epoch Times in an email.
“This needs to happen immediately.”
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58 Comments
3 years ago
This explains some recent texts I’ve received from random numbers and users. I’ve said for a long time, all the people I know that have smart phones, but never let their opinions about laws, policies and the like have let the Left take over and George Orwell would be green with envy. A Telescreen is no longer necessary, All the Democrat voters and their RINO friends carry it with them.
3 years ago
While the Chinese Democrat Party in America spent billions attacking President Trump for being the Most Effective President in History, they allowed our enemies to infiltrate by forcing our President to focus on defending himself 24/7. THESE TRAITORS MUST BE DEALT WITH.
3 years ago
Reply to
Clearly101
The CCP is also dumping on us in Australia putting on trade sanctions.
3 years ago
Reply to
Clearly101
Yeah that needs to be continued till the end.
It’s obvious the federal government is aligned with China so we don’t need them.
3 years ago
I guess China loading us up with fentanyl wasn’t enough to bring the U.S. down.
Now with the majority of the WALL up, that seems to be less of a problem. China is at war with us.
They prefer nonmilitary confrontation. They attack us in other ways as well as buying us up.
3 years ago
Oh my,..
Another, I told you so, that became another I ‘Told you so”, By MANY Smart Souls.
So much Corruption,Treason, Murders, Destruction, etc ..
all leading to January 6th, 2021
a Date that will be remembered, like 11/ 22/1963, and 9/11/2001
“Where were You when,…….”
3 years ago
US CIA and FBI are in a race with Red Chinese to see which will undermine our 4th amendment rights more thoroughly.
3 years ago
Reply to
Andrew
They have already been selectively violated. Manafort, scumbag Cohen who “would take a bullet for Trump” and Roger Stone.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Trumo is a real American unlike you vgo back to the kibbutz you schmuck
3 years ago
Reply to
Andrew
That is the FBI’s job.
The CIA handles ‘foreign’ false flag events and the FBI handles ‘domestic’ false flag events.
That way they seldom shoot each other.
3 years ago
Reply to
Andrew
Don’t forget Big Tech. They spy on our online and phone use, and track us through our phone.
3 years ago
The ‘Bad Guys’, know the answer,before the Questions,
as ,. . . . “Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke out on Thursday”,….
“Rouhani went so far as to say that he has “no doubt” that Biden will “bow” to Iran and return to the Obama-era nuclear deal that was signed in 2015. “.
https://www.lifezette.com/2020/12/president-of-iran-says-theres-no-doubt-biden-will-bow-to-iran-and-lift-sanctions/?utm_source=right-rail-latest
3 years ago
Or get a DUMB phone and have nothing on it.
3 years ago
Reply to
angry american
That’s the way I like my phone. They can nail me on my comments instead.
3 years ago
Reply to
angry american
Get a phone that is as smart as Hunter and claim your Chinese diamond.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
There’s a guy on YouTube that knows how to de-Google a cell phone. He’s all about phone privacy. I’ll look up his page if you want.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bill
Snowden has his smartphone setup so he can disassemble it quickly and remove the speaker(s) and microphone(s).
Maybe its time to go the drug gangster route and buy anonymous throw away smartphones?
3 years ago
Don’t worry, Agent Orange will dismiss it just as he’s dismissed the Russian cyber attacks. Donald only attacks allies.
3 years ago
Those pesky calls I keep getting from those SOB’s to renew my vehicle’s extended warranty, they’re in it with the commies, I tell ya!!
3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
Lunch_Money
Basement Biden spent all that time downstairs getting measured for his PLA uniform.
3 years ago
Joe Biden Appears to Outperform in Counties Using Dominion or HART Voting Machines:
Data Analyst
BY ALLEN ZHONG
December 19, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden outperforms in counties that use the Dominion or HART InterCivic voting machines, according to a data analyst.
“Analysis evidence suggests the use of the Dominion X/ICX BMD (Ballot Marking Device) machine, manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems, and machines from HART InterCivic appear to have abnormally influenced election results,” the data analyst wrote in a report that went public on Thursday.
The data analyst, who chose to remain anonymous for safety reasons, has 30 years of experience in data analysis, according to his profile reviewed by The Epoch Times.
In his research, he used voting data and 2017 census data to set up a baseline scenario to predict the election result. Then, he used the baseline model to compare the results of the November election.
The results show Biden falling above the prediction line in 78 percent of counties that use voting machines from those two companies.
His analysis also indicates that Biden consistently received 5.6 percent more votes in those counties than he should have.
Voting Machines Irregularities
Data analysis shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden outperforms in counties that use specific voting machines. (Screenshot)
“That should not happen … The counties using Dominion machines are clearly too high,” he said in a video introducing his research results. “That is a dramatic red flag in my opinion … something’s going on here.”
He said that the “plus 5.6 percent” pattern is not caused by the above-mentioned voting machines being widely used in strong Democratic counties, as it can also be found in counties that have strong support for President Donald Trump.
The research has not been peer-reviewed.
Hart InterCivic didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from The Epoch Times. Dominion Voting System refused to comment on the results of the analysis. The company said that “courts of law across America have confirmed multiple times that there is no credible evidence to suggest any vote switching or fraud using Dominion Voting Systems.”
The analysis said he didn’t draw any conclusion on who caused the possible irregularities.
However, he believes that there must be a big scheme if the potential irregularities in his analysis have been caused by intentional activities.
“The patterns I’m seeing are across many counties—so my findings concern an organization with large-scale, national impact. That is, what I am seeing is not a local optical scan operator running a box of ballots through the system three times.”
He didn’t name any company or related party for wrongdoing.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
So those German IT gizmos that were grabbed weren’t helpful? I haven’t heard. But this does look like compelling circumstantial evidence. But enough to change the outcome? Well, we need a break, soon. I feel like my Civil Rights were violated.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bill
I have no idea what happened to those servers and where they are. There is more than enough to change the outcome if someone would take it seriously and rule on it. Our rights are constantly being violated. Look at these ridiculous lock downs. The elites don’t abide by them, but YOU are supposed to. They know it’s a joke.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
They are just a smoke screen for mail in ballots. But leave it to the leftist local govt. to blow something out of proportion. Libraries also. Geez. I don’t have a printer, use on only once a year, so the library works great. No access to computers, have to email printing requests, then they hand it out the door to you. What the heck are the masks and social distancing for, if we don’t have access to the library? Idiotic. Over-reaction BIGLY.
3 years ago
If your smart phine say made in China, the Chicom government has the ability to listen in on every call you made.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I have a flip phone, and it is turned off 99% of the time. If they want to waste their time on me, sum ting wong with them.
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Goldman
Same here!
No contact tracing with me. No apps.
I also don’t want to get in the habit of constantly fiddling with my phone when out to pass the time and give others more information on me. They have enough already on the internet. On those public occasions, I bring a book or do a crossword puzzle or Sudoku etc..
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I don’t know if any smart phones are made outside of the PRC anymore. It seems that almost anything electronic is made in China now.
3 years ago
Democrats would sell us out for an illusion of power!
3 years ago
I think Samsung phones are made in South Korea. Maybe less spying.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bill
I’m not so sure about that. The cheap labor rates in the PRC suck everyone in.
3 years ago
Big Brother is Watching You 
3 years ago
MADE IN CHINA????????
3 years ago
The solution is simple: buy a “stupid” basic flip-phone, preferably made in theUS.
3 years ago
I have the supernatural power to spread the news of the Antichrist who is Obama, the Muslim Devil and Satan.
Join me.
If we’re many this will be over by noon.
Hurry up.
3 years ago
China’s mass surveillance of ‘We the People’ is not a solo endeavor; the faux-Democrats are complicitous, duplicitous in aiding-and-abetting the People’s Republic.
3 years ago
The Dem China party must be stopped in every way and this Election which they attempt to steal, this Treason shall not go un noticed or un punished, Its not candy they are stealing but your way of life!! from a free society to a dictatorship rule of life, Wake up don’t let it happen step in and protest peacefully if your able to do so.
3 years ago
It only reinforces my refusal to own a “smart fone” – I’ll stay with the cheap flips, they can’t run the software.
3 years ago
Mine would bore them to death.
3 years ago
Google…a supposed American company doxxed important Hong Kong protestors. Handed it all to the chicoms who then in the dark of night raided their locations and arrested them by the hundreds. Suddenly the resistance movement lost a lot of steam.
All owned to Google…who would bring back the gas chambers in a minute.
3 years ago
People think that the best real estate deal in history was the purchase of Staten island for $24. Ha! The real deal was the purchase of the US for a few billion. Biden was one of the chief players. He also picked up chump change along the way for selling us out to Russia, Ukraine, and anywhere. He and his cronies know what the real steal was.
3 years ago
Must be obiden buddies.
3 years ago
The CCP don’t know, but the all powerful father creator of the universe Yahweh knows all about them also having it all written down in books!
