Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network KPN: Report
The title is misleading... my interpretation of the contents is that KPN outsourced the maintenance of their mobile core network to Huawei, and that Huawei personnel as a result had full technical access to the network. There is no evidence given than Huawei actually abused that access, which would indeed be major news.<p>I assume they had some contract to spell out the legal level of access that Huawei had... the level of technical access would presumably have been exactly the same had they outsourced the maintenance to a western company, the legal protections would presumably just have more weight in that situation.<p>The worrying part is that the owner of the network apparently lacked audit logs of any such technical level access. That's still just as much of a problem with insider threats if the company manages the network themselves?