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by servytor 1558 days ago
The UK has been indecisive about trusting Huawei [0 (sorry for the Daily Mail link),1,2,3]; I don't know why and find it very interesting. I am used to reading about nation states having an unwavering opinion, not flipping back and forth (unless because of political lines). They claim that their hand has been forced by the USA [4].

[0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7935905/MI5-MI6-GCH...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/09/former-uk-spymaster-john-saw...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-huawei-tech-five-...

[3] https://www.ft.com/content/90c07bbe-38ce-11e9-b856-5404d3811...

[4] https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/uk-bann...

2 comments

vince cable is not part of the government and has no more information on the situation than you or I

the government was resistant to the US' position until the CCP's crackdown on hong kong, at which point they reversed their position

Yeah the actual position of the government is all over the place and it's all tied up in the politics of US/China relations.

I think the findings in the report are still a concrete assessment of Huawei's abilities that we can draw conclusions from about their product security.