Just received this from an email fren.
The Obama administration signed an informal espionage agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2015, calling for an end to intellectual property or trade secret theft by either nation against the other. Naturally China continued to hack systems around the world and steal all manner of things.
The Trump administration has demonstrated a range of ways that China has not operated in good faith on cybersecurity and have now enlisted the support of the U.K., Australia, Germany, Belgium and Canada.
“How did Huawei get their chips into Apple Iphones? Feinstein knows…
This Huawei thing is going to get very very big. Naval Warships and fighter planes are also involved.”
https://twitter.com/5Strat/status/1090069064062402560
"The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
A newly discovered bug in Apple's FaceTime software lets Apple users listen in on the people they are calling, and even see through their front-facing camera, without them picking-up the call. You can disable FaceTime until the bug is fixed
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/facetime-bug-lets-you-eavesdrop-on-your-iphone-contacts-20190129-p50uam.html