it is overseen by doctor ian leavy, hisjob is to defend the uk against digital attacks.es huawei pose more of a security risk than the other companies that supply the network infrastructure? i think what we're talking about is, assume that chines state wants to attack the uk telecoms networks. ourjob is to try and make them work just as hard regardless of whether we use huawei kit or not. many people think the chinese state would love to eavesdrop on other countries. if we let huawei into 5g, is that a real danger? it's no more likely to have spying or communications in 5g that it is in ag, and anything that is critical, whether it's government, business, even personal communications should be encrypted. so, you know, all of the communications with your bank from your smartphone, they are all encrypted because you don't want to trust the wi—fi and the telecoms networks. so if someone is listening on the line, they willjust get garbled gobbledegook? yep. and it's the same for critical stuff in business, in government, in control systems. so, according to gchq, the threat