[LINK] "NSA hacked Chinese telco Huawei: Snowden"

[rfmcdonald]

I've blogged a fair bit about my usage of one Huawei handset or another for the past few years. I've even joked to friends that I like having a Huawei, since I'm sure that my data was being backed up by the benevolent kind People's Republic of China. I hadn't really suspected that the United States might well be in the same position.
See this AFP article shared by Al Jazeera.

The US National Security Agency has secretly tapped into the networks of Chinese telecom and internet giant Huawei, the New York Times and Der Spiegel reported.

The NSA accessed Huawei's email archive, communication between top company officials internal documents, and even the secret source code of individual Huawei products, read the reports, which were published on Saturday, based on documents provided by fugitive NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

"We currently have good access and so much data that we don't know what to do with it," states one internal document cited by Der Spiegel.

Huawei, founded in 1987 by former People's Liberation Army engineer Ren Zhengfei, has long been seen by Washington as a potential security Trojan Horse due to perceived close links to the Chinese government, which it denies.

The United States and Australia have barred Huawei from involvement in broadband projects over espionage fears.

There's also Canada.

Do I want to know where offsite--offshore, rather--backups of my data are?