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mwooldri

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2. I'm skeptical. Huawei's products have been stripped bare by UK intelligence...

Reply to Roland99 (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2020, 10:47 PM

Feb 2020

... and what was found was a whole lot of "shoddy engineering practices". "Engineering like back in the year 2000".

Huawei may make nice hardware but it's the software that makes them cheap - and if it's crap then sure anyone can hack in and listen and snoop. That's why the UK government are setting conditions on how and where Huawei's equipment can be installed when building out the UK's 5G network - namely not the main core or "brains" of the system, none of their stuff to be installed near sensitive locations (Westminster, military bases etc) and only 35% of a company's 5G network can be equipment from any one manufacturer.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47830056

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