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Eugene

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Wed Apr 24, 2019, 08:02 AM Apr 2019

UK cyber boss downplays threat of Five Eyes security rift over Huawei

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS APRIL 24, 2019 / 3:45 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

UK cyber boss downplays threat of Five Eyes security rift over Huawei

LONDON (Reuters) - The head of Britain’s cyber center said governments in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance had not always been aligned over Huawei, downplaying any threat of a rift as the UK prepares to give the Chinese company access to 5G networks.

A security source has told Reuters that Britain will allow Huawei access to non-core parts of the 5G network, but block it from all core parts of the system. The United States had told allies not to use Huawei’s technology because of fears it could be a vehicle for Chinese spy operations.

“It’s objectively the case that in the past decade there have been different approaches across the Five Eyes and across the allied wider Western alliance towards Huawei and towards other issues as well,” Ciaran Martin, the head of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Center, told BBC radio.

He declined to confirm or deny the reports regarding Huawei, but said the government would make a decision soon.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-huawei-ncsc/uk-cyber-boss-downplays-threat-of-five-eyes-security-rift-over-huawei-idUSKCN1S00SB
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