GERMANY's
Federal Intelligence Service chief Bruno Kahl said
Shenzhen's Huawei Technologies "can't be trusted," signalling
security hardliners in Chancellor Angela Merkel government
to keep it out of the country's fifth-generation networks, reports Bloomberg.
"The trust in a state company that has a very high
level of dependence on the Communist Party and the country's intelligence
apparatus is not present," Mr Kahl told a panel of lawmakers overseeing
German intelligence agencies.
Chancellor
Merkel's government earlier this year ruled out an outright ban, defying
warnings by the US government and security hawks that Huawei equipment poses a
risk of exposure to Chinese espionage.
That position was reinforced this month by reports the
Chancellery had intervened to soften draft securities standards by removing the
ability of authorities to identify "untrustworthy" vendors.
Mr Kahl signalled the government is still processing its
security measures, saying, "I have not been able to see that a definitive
decision has been taken one way or the other."
Huawei said suspicions were groundless. "We have
never introduced, and would never entertain the thought of introducing,
so-called 'backdoors' in our equipment," Huawei said in an emailed
response to a query.
Source : HKSG / Photo : Intel Today.
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