By Dona Z. Pazzibugan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
3:31 pm | Saturday, August 3rd, 2013
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MANILA, Philippines? ? Finding out about the latest allegations of espionage against the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies Co. has prompted the Department of Education to reconsider its acceptance of a ?cloud-based? computer network system donated by the company to the department recently.
DepEd formally accepted Huawei?s donation of 50 computer units operating on a ?cloud-based? virtual desktop infrastructure system last July 26 when Education Secretary Br. Armin Luistro signed an agreement with Huawei Philippines executives. The system was to be installed at the DepEd?s main office within the month.
(?Cloud? is another term for the Internet and cloud-computing, which simply means that one stores information in the Internet instead of in the hard drive of a computer.)
DepEd was unaware, however, that a week before the signing of the agreement, a former head of the US Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Hayden, told the Australian Financial Review that Huawei had spied for the Chinese government.
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