Britain cautiously lets Huawei into its 5G networks
CYBER UK, a two-day cyber-security conference starting in Glasgow on April 24th, gathered senior spooks and industry leaders from every member of the “Five Eyes”, the electronic-spying pact between America, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Delegates debated how “to make cyberspace free, open, peaceful and secure”, as Jeremy Hunt, Britain’s foreign secretary, put it. But many had more pressing questions on their minds.
They argue that the use of its equipment would facilitate spying or even sabotage by China. It would thereby put at risk the vast flow of intelligence that flows daily from America to its Western allies. “If a country adopts this and puts it in some of their critical information systems, we won’t be able to share information with them,” warned Mr Pompeo in February, with more than a hint of menace.
In recent years HCSEC’s oversight board has published several reports lambasting Huawei—not for colluding with Chinese spooks but for writing slipshod code, which is just as bad for security. In March it warned that it could “only provide limited assurance that all risks to UK national security from Huawei’s involvement in the UK’s critical networks can be sufficiently mitigated long-term”.
Others take a less sanguine view. “The distinction between core and edge collapses in 5G networks,” warned the head of the Australian Signals Directorate , GCHQ’s counterpart, last year. “That means that a potential threat anywhere in the network will be a threat to the whole network.” Australia accordingly shut out Huawei altogether.
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