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Exclusive: Spyware claims emerge in row over Chinese dissident at NYU
ReutersBy Jonathan Allen | Reuters – Fri, Jun 21, 2013
By Jonathan Allen
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng arrived in the
United States in May last year he was given a fellowship at New York
University, use of a Greenwich Village apartment, and a pile of gifts from
supporters, including smartphones and an iPad.
But at least two of the gadgets presented to Chen as gifts may not have been
quite what they seemed: They included software intended to spy on the blind
dissident, according to Jerome Cohen, an NYU professor who has been Chen's
mentor, and another source familiar with the episode.
Like nearly everything surrounding Chen these days, the existence of the
spyware is in dispute, and only adds to the public recriminations there have
been between NYU and Chen's supporters over events surrounding the end of
his fellowship.
Last weekend, Chen accused NYU of bowing to pressure from China by ending
the fellowship, and his supporters have suggested that the university is
wary of displeasing the Chinese authorities because of its plans for a
campus in Shanghai. The allegations are vigorously denied by NYU, which says
the fellowship was only ever planned to last a year.
At issue in the latest escalation in the argument are an iPad and at least
one of the smartphones that were given to Chen days after he fled China and
arrived in Manhattan. The devices were found by NYU technicians to have been
loaded with software that made it possible to track the dissident's
movements and communications, according to Cohen and the second source, who
was not authorized to speak on the matter.
The episode suggests that from almost the day that he arrived at the
university there was an uneasy atmosphere between Chen, his supporters, and
NYU
Among the first visitors in May 2012 to the New York apartment Chen had
moved into with his family after a dramatic escape from house arrest in
China was Heidi Cai, the wife of activist Bob Fu. She brought an iPad and
iPhone as gifts.
The devices were screened by NYU technicians within a few days and were
found to have been loaded with hidden spying software, said Cohen, who
arranged the fellowship for Chen at NYU Law School, helping defuse a
diplomatic crisis between the United States and China after Chen took refuge
in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
"These people supposedly were out to help him and they give him a kind of
Trojan horse that would have enabled them to monitor his communications
secretly," said Cohen.
The iPad was eventually cleaned up and returned to Chen at his request, the
second source said.
The spyware issue was not publicized at the time and has only surfaced
because of the recent scrutiny of NYU's arrangement with Chen. Cohen said he
was surprised when he heard that Reuters knew about the episode.
"007 THING"
Asked about the gadgets, Fu told Reuters that his wife had given two Apple
devices to Chen shortly after the dissident had settled in New York. Fu runs
a Christian group called ChinaAid that supports underground churches in
China and victims of forced abortions.
"This is the first time I've heard of spyware," said Fu, who was in
southeast Asia when his wife delivered the devices. He called the
allegations "ridiculous" and "like a 007 thing."
"We knew that the first thing after they arrived, they'd want to call their
family members, so we wanted to provide communication devices, iPhone and
iPad," Fu said by telephone from Texas.
Although Cohen and the second source say they were left with no doubt the
devices were deliberately installed with spyware, it could not be
established whether there might be a more innocent explanation for what
technicians believed they had found. The technicians could not be reached
for comment.
In examining the iPad and the iPhone, they found software that allowed a
third party to secretly connect to an inbuilt global positioning system,
essentially turning a device into a tracking device, said the second source.
The technicians also found hidden, password-protected software that backed
up the contents to a remote server, the source added.
"It's perfectly consistent with their desire to manipulate and control the
situation and know whatever confidential advice he is getting," Cohen said.
SUSPICIOUS SOFTWARE
At least three other electronic devices, given to Chen and his wife during
their first few days in New York by people other than Fu, also included
suspicious software, the second source said.
Fu said he consulted ChinaAid's computer technician on Thursday and "my
staffer is 100 percent sure that the only thing he added on the iPad was a
Skype account."
His technician did only routine things like "the activation of the iPad and
iPhone, basic installment, iCloud... there was nothing else there. They have
to provide evidence," said Fu.
"Everything was transparent. There was nothing hidden," he added.
John Beckman, a spokesman for NYU, declined to discuss specifics about the
episode. "I do remember hearing about it, I was never really aware of the
details, and so I'm not going to comment on it," he said.
Several of Chen's supporters allege that NYU staff has controlled and
withheld access to the activist. NYU rejects these claims and some figures
connected with the university, including Cohen, say that some of Chen's
supporters may be trying to manipulate the self-trained lawyer who speaks
little English to serve their own political ends.
Chen could not be reached for comment.
But Mark Corallo, a media consultant who has been working with Chen, said
that the gifts from Fu were taken away by NYU before the dissident received
them.
"The devices were brand-new when ChinaAid gave them to NYU to give to Chen,
so there was no need or reason to perform any check," he said in an email. "
And none of these functions was on any of the devices provided to him by
ChinaAid."
He added that: "At least to Chen's knowledge, none of these devices was ever
found to have any tracking or listening mechanisms."
Cohen and the second source maintain, however, that Chen was told within
days of his arrival in an unfamiliar country that people he believed to be
his supporters were very likely spying on him. Chen was "furious" and "very
upset" when told, the second source recalled.
Even so, Cohen said Chen still continued to interact with the Fu family. "
That's his right," Cohen said.
(With reporting by Paul Eckert; Editing by Paul Thomasch, Martin Howell) |
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