英國棄用華爲設備 擔心遭竊聽
Accusations about "information security" directed toward Chinese communication equipment should based on facts or investigative results rather than concerns raised by possible "vulnerabilities", observers said on Tuesday after British ministries dumped Chinese products.
英國政府部門週二棄用中國華爲公司的產品後，觀察者稱對於中國通信設備有關“信息安全”方面的指控應當建立在事實和調查結果而非可能存在的“漏洞”之上。British government departments such as the Home Office, Ministry of Justice and Crown Prosecution Service are all said to have stopped using equipment manufactured by Chinese telecom company Huawei amid fears they are being used by the Chinese government to eavesdrop, according to a report by the UK's Sunday Mirror.
據英國《星期日鏡報》報道稱，英國內政部、司法部和皇家檢察署等部門均已停止使用中國華爲公司製造的視頻會議設備，以防中國政府利用這些設備進行竊聽活動。A briefing was sent to all ministerial departments urging them to stop using the video-conferencing equipment, the newspaper said, adding that there are possible "vulnerabilities" that have caused widespread concern.
《星期日鏡報》稱，一份高層簡報已被分發至英國各內閣部門，通知停止使用由華爲公司製造的視頻會議設備。報道還稱，一些可能存在的“漏洞”已經引起了廣泛的關注。
The former head of the Foreign Office's Asia research group, Roderic Wye, told the paper "there had long been fears about the firm's operations".
英國外交部亞洲研究小組前負責人Roderic Wye稱，“對華爲公司業務運營的擔憂存在已久”。He said: "It's a matter of record that the United States and Australia have had real concerns about Huawei. The UK has been rather more open and there is quite a bit of Huawei investment in this country.
他說：“美國和澳大利亞對華爲公司的運營一直存在切實的擔憂，這是有案可查的事情。英國在此方面的態度一直開放得多，華爲公司在英國有大量的投資。”"But there clearly remain concerns over how close the relationship is between Huawei and the Chinese government — and whether it could be a risk using the firm's technology in sensitive areas."
“但顯然如今仍然有擔憂表示不瞭解華爲公司與中國政府之間的關係緊密到何種程度，也就是說在一些敏感領域使用華爲公司的設備是否意味着會帶來風險。”Huawei said the accusation was misleading and without any evidence.
華爲公司反擊稱這些指控爲無稽之談，且存在誤導性。"Our video conferencing equipment is based on global standards, so to suggest it is specifically open to abuse would be misleading," said a statement from the company's UK branch.
“我們的視頻會議設備都是符合國際標準的，因此暗示它們被用作特殊用途的做法是存在誤導性的。”華爲英國分公司發表聲明稱。"We are a private, employee-owned company, and we share the same goal as our customers — to raise the standard of cybersecurity, and to ensure technology benefits consumers."
“我們是一傢俬營的員工持股公司，我們與顧客有着共同的目標，那就是提高網絡安全標準，保證將技術造福於顧客。”Xiang Ligang, a Beijing- based telecom expert, said the biggest threat to information security is not from the equipment but people's actions.
項立剛是北京的一名電信專家，他說，信息安全面臨的最大威脅不是設備，而是人爲的做法。"Huawei has been shut out of the US market for the same reason, but from the Edward Snowden case we see that the US government, which doesn't use Huawei's products, was monitoring their own citizens, foreign diplomats and other countries' officials," Xiang said.
“華爲公司就是因爲這一原因而一直沒有進入美國市場，從斯諾登事件我們可以看到，沒有使用華爲產品的美國政府，卻在監控他們自己的市民、其他國家的外交人員和政府工作人員。”He Maochun, director of the Economy and Diplomacy Research Center at Tsinghua University, said it is unfair to dump Chinese products because of fear rather than evidence.
清華大學經濟外交研究中心主任何茂春說，英國政府因爲對竊聽活動的擔心而非事實的證據拆除華爲公司設備的行爲是不公平的。"Many Chinese telecom companies such as Lenovo, ZTE and Huawei are treated unfairly in Western markets for similar reasons. And the cases are likely to appear when Chinese telecom products are entering their markets on a large scale," He said.
“很多中國的電信公司，比如聯想、中興和華爲等等，都因爲相似的理由在西方市場受到不公平的待遇，尤其是當中國的電信產品大規模地佔據它們的市場份額的時候。”The director said Chinese companies can improve transparency on information security and give foreign markets more confidence in their products.
何茂春說，中國公司應當提高自身在信息安全方面的透明度，增強外國市場對於其產品的信心。"Industrial associations and the Chinese government should try to support the companies to pursue more legal measures to protect the rights they deserve," he added.
“行業協會和中國政府也應當盡力支持這些公司利用法律手段維護自身的合法權利。”Many British products, such as financial services and construction equipment, are imported to China every year. If China treated UK companies the same way, it would be unfair to the British companies, the director said.
另外，何茂春補充說，中國每年都會進口很多英國產品，包括金融服務和建築設備等等。如果中國政府以同樣的方式對待英國公司，那對於英國公司來講也是不公平的。
