BBC:
The US has warned the British government it "would be madness" to use Huawei technology in the UK's 5G network.
A US delegation presented the UK with new evidence claiming to show security risks posed by using the Chinese firm.
[...]Senior US officials handed over a dossier of technical information which sources claim challenged British intelligence's own technical assessment that it would be possible to use Huawei in the 5G infrastructure without risks to national security.
[...]The move is being seen as the latest round in an intense lobbying effort by the Trump administration as the UK government prepares to makes its decision on the 5G network.
Last year, the US banned companies from selling components and technology to Huawei and 68 related companies, citing national security concerns.
Is the security concern real, or is it all about the Benjamins?
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UK reportedly planning to phase out Huawei equipment from its 5G networks
After resisting pressure from the US for months, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is apparently preparing to phase out the use of Huawei equipment from the UK's 5G networks, the Financial Times reported. Citing national security concerns, members of the UK's Conservative party have pushed for Huawei technology to be removed from the UK's 5G infrastructure and the rest of its telecom network by 2023.
[...] Trump reportedly called Johnson earlier this year to discuss the matter, and at least one member of Congress said the US was reconsidering its intelligence partnership with the UK.
Johnson had limited how much Huawei equipment could be used for 5G networks in the UK, banning the use of the company's technology in the most sensitive parts of the network. He said in January that there were not a lot of other options available for the UK's 5G infrastructure, and telecom Vodafone said removing Huawei equipment from its networks would be extremely costly.
See also: Reports: UK to cut Huawei's involvement in 5G network
Boris Johnson forced to reduce Huawei's role in UK's 5G networks
Previously:
U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products
Huawei's Equipment Removed from UK Telecom BT's Network for Emergency Services
EU to Drop Threat of Huawei Ban but Wants 5G Risks Monitored
UK to Toughen Telecoms Security Controls to Shrink 5G Risks
How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network
Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US
Getting Huawei Out of US Networks Requires Gov't Funding, Senators Say
Huawei Fires Back, Points To US' History Of Spying On Phone Networks
TSMC Dumps Huawei
(Score: 2, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday January 15 2020, @06:10AM (7 children)
Invalid verb mood detected.
The existence of pathological level of madness in UK is already a certified reality, nothing subjunctive about it.
Proof? Brexit. (large grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by arslan on Wednesday January 15 2020, @06:23AM (6 children)
Sussexit?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday January 15 2020, @07:22AM (5 children)
Nah, that's actually quite a sane proposition.
Slackers they may be, but I can't blame them for trying to have all the advantages of royalty with none of its obligations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Redundant) by MostCynical on Wednesday January 15 2020, @08:10AM (4 children)
Likely more opportunity to cash-in on tabloid interest.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday January 15 2020, @09:31AM
For someone who lost his mother on "tabloid interest" related causes? I really-really doubt it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Insightful) by isostatic on Wednesday January 15 2020, @12:22PM
More like ability to remove themselves from the sphere of tabloid hatred in the UK
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:10PM (1 child)
I am unfamiliar with these tabloids. Do they run Chrome OS ?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @11:11PM
No, they run shadow banking with high interest rates.
(Score: 3, Touché) by MostCynical on Wednesday January 15 2020, @08:20AM (2 children)
the NSA just miffed that they haven't been able to backdoor Huawei equipment?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 4, Funny) by gawdonblue on Wednesday January 15 2020, @09:49AM
Cisco is recommended by 9 out of 10 NSA experts.
(Score: 4, Informative) by driverless on Wednesday January 15 2020, @10:22AM
The US has warned the British government it "would be madness" to not use overpriced, behind-schedule, NSA-backdoored US technology in the UK's 5G network.
There, FTFY.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Wednesday January 15 2020, @08:25AM (1 child)
Let's ask Beatrix Potter [wikipedia.org], she'll know.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by zocalo on Wednesday January 15 2020, @09:33AM
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @08:26AM (5 children)
The US has now completely lost its moral ground. When they can't compete, they impose pointless embargoes. Cuba was not an aberration in this regard, just a forward about things to come. Endless wars, both militarily and economically, is the status quo of US. For any other nation, Dotard in Chief would be beginning of an end (like in Zimbabwe or Turkey), but smarter people in the past have won great influence for US that it continues to enjoy. USD reserve currency status is what I'm talking about here. If not for that, US would be like Turkey already.
Enjoy while it lasts? I'm not optimistic that Americans have any great intelligence to actually see their own problems.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday January 15 2020, @01:24PM
Fair point, but who does?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @07:25PM
And you foreigners have to obey, as you're too scared to grow some balls to fight for your own interests. Haha, fuck you! 🖕🖕🖕
-- Uncle Sam
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday January 15 2020, @10:52PM (1 child)
Moral grounds tend to be rather relative when the other side is harvesting religious and ethnic minorities for not-so-spare organs.
Lesser of two evils and all that...
compiling...
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday January 16 2020, @12:21AM
Evil is evil. [youtube.com]
Can we choose "neither"?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @09:45AM
Although really the Whiskey Rebellion and Washintgon's leading of conscripted men to put it down showed America's true colors before it was even truly America (that was still under the Articles of Confederation, look to Shay's Rebellion and others for post-Union conflicts and the surrounding history of how the mechant class was already running things at the detriment of the common folk and especially colonial farmers. People continued moving West for a lot of reasons. Including to avoid taxes and corrupt government/lawmen.)
The opening of Japan however was an unprovoked attack on a foreign entity who had claimed the right to isolation, a right which we chose to breach in order to have a more convenient port to resupply in past Hawaii since Chinese ports were under unfavorable European control. The result of that being the decline of the Shogunate and the return of Imperial Japan, directly leading to their participation in later wars up to and including WW2 in order to continue fueling their industrial capacity for which they had insufficient domestic resources, particularly in regards to fuel and supplies of certain minerals.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @11:55PM
Madness would be to let the land in your country to be purchased by your sworn enemies who have openly declared they will kill you and have done so.
Because that would be just stupid.
It's okay though because London is the bastion of the English. No one will ever take over their home, invade their lands, rape [wikipedia.org] and murder at will.