Venezuela’s president says U.S. spies can’t hack Huawei phones

Venezuela’s president says U.S. spies can’t hack Huawei phones

Venezuela’s president thinks American spies can’t hack Huawei phones During a press conference this week, Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro proudly held up a Huawei smartphone, gifted to him by China’s President Xi Jinping. He called it “the best phone in the world” and made a bold statement: Venezuela’s president thinks American spies can’t hack Huawei phones. Image Credits:Jesus Vargas / Getty Images “The Americans can’t hack it, neither their spy planes, nor their satellites,” Maduro claimed while showing off what appeared to be Huawei’s foldable Mate X6, released in 2024. Can Huawei phones really be unhackable? Maduro’s confidence aside, security experts say no device is impossible to hack — especially when U.S. government hackers are considered among the most skilled in the world. A U.S.-based vulnerability researcher told TechCrunch that Huawei’s approach of building both its hardware and its mobile operating system, HarmonyOS, could actually make its devices more vulnerable . “There…