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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: 0.415s | source
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rich_sasha ◴[14 Jul 20 12:42 UTC] No.23831166[source]▶
If this is just Realpolitik/hardware independence, fine, but security..?

Any worthwhile Internet traffic should be encrypted in 2020, and if it isn’t, Huawei probably isn’t the most immediate concern.

And if it is encrypted, does it really matter who is listening?

Comments welcome, I know zilch about telecoms hardware.

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TheAdamAndChe ◴[14 Jul 20 12:48 UTC] No.23831214[source]▶
Your questions aren't about telecoms hardware, but about politics and the international flow of power. China is slated to take over the world economically. Their political model has the potential to spread around the world. These are attempts to limit China's capacity to grow as fast while inhibiting their capacity to knock out, intercept, or backdoor critical infrastructure.
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me_me_me ◴[14 Jul 20 16:22 UTC] No.23833862[source]▶
> Their political model has the potential to spread around the world.

Care to expand that thought? I don't particularly see how their communist-capitalism system would be ever accepted by EU or NA.

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1. TheAdamAndChe ◴[14 Jul 20 19:38 UTC] No.23836719[source]▶
No... But many African nations are on the rise. They also have significant influence on other countries in Asia.
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2. runawaybottle ◴[15 Jul 20 01:50 UTC] No.23840334[source]▶
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative

These infrastructure plans usually come with some kind of hand over of power to China.