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Re:Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027 by filoleg on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:37PM (#23837509)
I think the parent comment wasn't talking about intercepting traffic and being able to know what your enemy is talking about.

The parent comment was talking about being able to take advantage of the situation by making the enemy use your devices and then incapacitating their infrastructure at the perfect moment by activating the killswitch on those devices.

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Re:Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027 by sudosysgen on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:49PM (#23839048)
The solution for that isn't to boycott Huawei, it's to have multiple networks with many providers.

A country using Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei is much better protected to such an attack than a company using only Nokia or only Huawei or only Ericsson, or both Nokia and Ericsson but not Huawei.

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Re:Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027 by filoleg on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:00PM (#23839136)
Sure, I am not arguing one way or another regarding whether this ban is good or not. I am just saying that the cold war analogy had nothing to do with encryption, unlike what the post I am replying to is attempting to imply.
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