Security News > 2020 > January > US hands UK 'dossier' on Huawei: Really! Still using their kit? That's just... one... step... beyond

Those known risks are twofold: Huawei's coding practices are pisspoor, as Britain's Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre found last year; and there is the ever-present fear that Huawei, or people within Huawei, could be forced to abuse their product knowledge to serve the Chinese regime, perhaps through espionage conducted on UK comms networks or helping with denial-of-service attacks.

Although the US have been claiming for years that Huawei poses a threat to communication security, given the well-documented activities of American spy agencies over the last couple of decades this seems like a hollow concern.

With Huawei offering a cut-price alternative to US enterprise tech brands such as Cisco, as well as arguably better technology to Western 5G network products, it's little surprise the American government is furiously lobbying on its industry's behalf.

Despite US unease, none of the technical threats said to be posed by Huawei have made it into the public domain.

Huawei's UK veep, Victor Zhang, said in a canned statement: "We are confident that the UK government will make a decision based upon evidence, as opposed to unsubstantiated allegations. Two UK parliamentary committees concluded there is no technical reason to ban us from supplying 5G equipment, and this week the head of MI5 said there is 'no reason to think' the UK's intelligence-sharing relationship with the US would be harmed if Britain continued to use Huawei technology." .

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