Doesn’t NZ look silly now?

The FT reports:

British intelligence has concluded that it is possible to mitigate the risk from using Huawei equipment in 5G networks, in a serious blow to US efforts to persuade allies to ban the Chinese supplier from high-speed telecommunications systems.  The UK National Cyber Security Centre has determined that there are ways to limit the risks from using Huawei in future 5G ultra-fast networks, two people familiar with the conclusion, which has not been made public, told the Financial Times. 

So why have we banned Huawei from the 5G network?

In theory it is just a draft ban, so now would be a good time for the Government to reconsider.

Robert Hannigan, former head of GCHQ, the UK signals intelligence agency, recently wrote in the FT that NCSC had “never found evidence of malicious Chinese state cyber activity through Huawei” and that any “assertions that any Chinese technology in any part of a 5G network represents an unacceptable risk are nonsense”. 

As far as I know, no one has ever pointed to anything Huawei has done wrong in terms of cybersecurity. The only issue is they are based in China and owned by Chinese.