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unforgivable actions by Teresa May

Further to the list given, on Farage for PM thread.  I was absolutely horrified and indeed frightened, that she has chosen to ignore advice given by MI5/6 re Huawei. As it happens I purchased a Huawei at the end of 2018. Roughly at that point in time Prince Charles cancelled all ties with his projects and Huawei. I had been reading for some time disquiet from America, not really surprising with their relationship with China, but also New Zealand and Australia. Why have a Security Service if you totally ignore advice ?.  The military weren't too impressed either. Perhaps with the chaos of everything I'm just getting paranoid. Notwithstanding, I've changed my mobile!

Barbara Shillabeer ● 2729d8 Comments

Can't afford to change mine - I also bought a Huawei towards the end of last year ...

Lucille Grant ● 2729d

What are you involved with that China would be interested in Barbara?

Freddie Francis ● 2729d

Me personally, nothing.. Definitely have nothing on my phone that is incriminating. Have read, false news perhaps? that our electric cars have Huawei spyware in them.There again I have no car, electric or otherwise. But then, Alexa, which equally I don't have.has spyware.(not Huawei ) .My whole issue was, she was totally wrong to go against advice of people whose existence is there to protect us.

Barbara Shillabeer ● 2729d

Shock horror, our enemies might be spying on us! Nothing new here: I seem to recall the issue of the security of Huawei equipment came up when BT were building their new 21st Century IP network a few years ago and the US didn't allow Checkpoint firewalls in government systems at one time because they did't trust the Israelis at one time, and al-Qaeda stopped using Inmarsat and Iridium satellite phones when they realised calls were bring tracked by US intelligence; hardly surprising when the DoD (allegedly) rescued Iridium and use it as a backup communications system. As far as handsets go, no evidence there's any monitoring and tracking spyware on them (unless you think someone wants to track you via WhatsApp!) but it will be an issue if Google stop supplying future security updates and software fixes.

Michael Ixer ● 2729d

I think we've missed the boat on preventing spyware and privacy.  Even though the rules were changed a year or so about websites and privacy, now we have (again) to tick and accept before we can view a website.There's been a lot of publicity about facial recognition recently, but how about when you fly and have to look into cameras at security in and out of the country.... facial recognition?We need to get used to the fact that we live in an age where everything is filmed/recorded.  Personally I couldn't care less, my life is not that interesting and I'm not a criminal.  When we can see films on TV from Britain or America where the security forces are watching on a screen, close up, something that is happening in Afghanistan, or Syria, or anywhere really, that's our life.

Bunny Payne ● 2729d

But, but, I always take my digital radio into the bathroom at bathtime! I could be featuring every week (or sometimes more often) on a massive TV screen in Tiananmen Square!

David Ainsworth ● 2729d

For those concerned I highly recommend reading through this article from 'the register', it's not some loony left wing site - just an IT news site.Well worth a read to dispel some mythshttps://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/25/5g_lies/

Matt Palmer ● 2729d

One question please.I understood that Austria (or Netherlands?) had put a stop to G5 testing due to concerns over human health.Is this not altogether true?

Ivonne Holliday ● 2729d