Cyber-security experts say the People's Republic already has much more effective ways of targeting Britain.
The Chinese firm Huawei is set to play a role in building part of the UK’s 5G network infrastructure
Huawei is already subject to oversight arrangements which ensure that any ’embedded malicious functionality could be detected should it exist’, the analysis said. ‘Placing “backdoors” in any Huawei equipment supplied into the UK is not the lowest risk, easiest to perform or most effective means for the Chinese state to perform a major cyber attack on UK telecoms networks today.’
They will also be limited to a minority presence of no more than 35% in the periphery of the network, known as the access network, elements which connect devices and equipment to mobile phone masts.
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