Never even heard of that brand, but thanks for the info.

They also make cheap cellphones, my wife had one through T-Mobile...Wow, when you thank about it, it's the perfect rival to the NSA (National Security Agency)...

obviously, the committee has never heard of all those windows backdoors from nsa.

or all those ithingys or other electronics being made in china for pittance and then sold at inflated prices everywhere.

Yeah, it stinks, don't it!  Companies shifting their manufacturing operations offshore to exploit low paid workers and cheap resources, yet selling their products as though they were manufactured onshore at 10 times the cost.  Apple is notorious for this - exploiting dirt cheap manufacturing costs while extracting premium prices across all markets for its products.  It's deplorable that Apple [and others] do this, exploiting the lowest paid workers, and it shits me immeasurably that none of this exploitative cost cutting can be passed on to the consumer.  No, it's all counted as profit while its exponential greed continues unabated, and why I've boycotted Apple products. 

Put bluntly, I refuse to give my patronage to corporate thugs/bullies.

*rant off*

I second that opinion!

You probably use their products already though.

Yes, apart from its own devices Huawei makes components for for dozens of electronics companies in the business of communications.  Yeah, I saw that on a current affairs show that did an expose on Huawei after the Australian Government barred the company from participating in the National Broadband Network roll-out over concerns of spying.

Personally, I think our politicians were worried Huawei would find out just how much porn they download, but that's another story.

But Apple had Steve Jobs, so it's okay. 

-Lord Brony

As to tec being vulnerable to being hacked, what about all the backdoors in Windows that every update has to close many, many of them. 

or

White House Hacked In Cyber Attack That Used Spear-Phishing To Crack Unclassified Network

Cisco Web Site Hacked, Exposing User Passwords

Why is it that we constantly hear of systems being compromised, but there is never any mention of what company supplied the system that 'has so many vulnerabilities', only the 'security' people failing at plugging all the holes. 

EDIT: If you really want to see spying, take a look at a company that many countries outsource the spying of their own citizens.

Comverse Infosys

Comverse Infosys, Inc., based in Woodbury, New York, is a world leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of award-winning digital recording and monitoring systems with multiple applications for law enforcement agencies, telecom network providers, contact centers, and government agencies. The company’s products are installed in global telecommunication networks, financial institutions, customer service centers, telemarketing centers, and other contact centers worldwide.

 http://cryptome.info/0001/verint-spysys.htm

What is to stop these guys from sharing information they collect on Americans to other 'evil' nations? Because we have all seen how honorable corporations are.

Edit2: Here is the Hack in the Box Magazine PDF from April. Tons of security issues, but I guess none are the competition to American Corporations, so no Big Show, nothing to see here people, move along.

http://magazine.hackinthebox.org/issues/HITB-Ezine-Issue-008.pdf