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Latest updates: Ben Wallace discusses suspected Chinese spy balloons after shooting down of mystery objects over US
Good morning and welcome to the UK politics live blog.
The defence secretary has been giving media interviews this morning where he has said that he is “certainly confident” the UK could deal with the mystery objects shot down over the US.
Yes, I’m certainly confident that we could deal with them if we wished to, or indeed if they posed a threat to the population or our national security.
I think the key here is to analyse the data share, you know, with the United States and Canada, what they have discovered and obviously they recovered, and they’re still recovering parts of that debris.
Well, they’re not hopefully … I don’t think they are hacking our sensitive CCTV cameras and we take every effort to protect areas that are sensitive from anybody hacking it, whether it’s China or whether it is another nation.
And there are two parts to protecting our infrastructure. One is to make sure that the quality of the equipment we buy is protected from being hacked.
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