Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, February 12th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough. Today, does Uncle Sam have a smoking gun when it comes to

Huawei? Could AirB&B's recent financials imperil its IPO plans?

Is Apple Pay eating the payments market?

Is the CISO job actually a miserable one?

And might the Z-flip actually be the first good

foldable phone. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

In their continuing effort to get others concerned about Huawei, the U.S. government has apparently

made claims that Huawei has for over a decade been able to covertly access mobile phone networks globally via

back doors that were originally designed for law enforcement.

This is apparently the classified evidence that the U.S. shared with other allies, including the UK and Germany,

in an effort to get those nations to distance themselves from Huawei, quoting the Wall Street Journal.

That was a tactical turnabout by the Well Street Journal.

That was a tactical turnabout by the U.S. which in the past had argued that it didn't need

to produce hard evidence of the threat.

It says Huawei poses to nation's security.

When telecom equipment makers sell hardware such as switching gear,

base stations, and antennas to cell phone carriers,

which assemble the networks that enable mobile communication and computing,

they are required by law to build in ways for authorities to tap into the networks for

lawful purposes.

These companies are also required to make sure they themselves can't gain access without the consent of the network operator.

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