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Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

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293 points doener | 2 comments | 14 Jul 20 12:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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gberger ◴[14 Jul 20 12:29 UTC] No.23831049[source]▶
The justification is that the equipment presents a national security risk.

If that's true, how is it reasonable to allow this equipment to operate in the UK for 7 more years? Doesn't that mean the UK is willingly under national security risk for 7 years?

Unless, of course, there was never a security risk...

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nicky0 ◴[14 Jul 20 12:32 UTC] No.23831079[source]▶
Presumably it's about judging what is an acceptable degree of risk vs stripping out all Huawei equipment immediately and effecively crippling the nation's comms infrastrtucture.
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ben_w ◴[14 Jul 20 12:36 UTC] No.23831102[source]▶
Is 5G really already “critical”? I thought it was only just starting to be phased in when the virus became more important to worry about.
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dazc ◴[14 Jul 20 12:46 UTC] No.23831195[source]▶
It isn't just 5G, Huawei equipment is used throughout the telecom industry.
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1. nicky0 ◴[14 Jul 20 13:00 UTC] No.23831371[source]▶
Which does raise the question, why are we concerned about 5G when Huawei is presumably also behind much of the 4G and other existing infrastructure? What's the difference in terms of security risk?
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2. dazc ◴[14 Jul 20 13:28 UTC] No.23831664[source]▶
One reason explained here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23831435