Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

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.

National security != information security

National security includes things such as the prevention of over-reliance on a foreign supplier working with a foreign subversive government hell-bent on their unfair mercantilist policies. It's economic security they worry about first, which could lead to a whole host of other security issues due to lost of leverage later on.

> prevention of over-reliance on a foreign supplier working with a foreign subversive government hell-bent on their unfair mercantilist policies.

If that was true, no foreign country would be buying from US companies.

Why?

To prevent over-reliance on a foreign supplier working with a foreign subversive government hell-bent on their unfair mercantilist policies.