essential idea was to do to Huawei exactly what Americans feared the Chinese were doing to the United States: crawl through the company’s networks, understand its vulnerabilities, and tap the communications of its top executives. But the plan went further: to exploit Huawai’s technology so that when the company sold equipment to other countries—including allies like South Korea and adversaries like Venezuela—the NSA could roam through those nations’ networks.
How incredibly devious and surely illegal
