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Lenovo Under U.S. Probe for Spying

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the seekrit-agent-man dept.

BigControversy writes "The DailyTech has a report indicating that Lenovo, the giant Chinese PC manufacturer, is under a probe by the U.S.-China Economic Security Review Commission (USCC) for possible bugging. Apparently, the government has ordered 16,000 PCs from Lenovo but is now requesting that Lenovo be investigated by intelligence agencies. The fear is of foreign intelligence applying pressure to Lenovo to equip its PCs so that the U.S. can be spied on." From the article: "Despite the probe, Lenovo says that its international business, especially those that deal with the US, follow strictly laid out government regulations and rules. Lenovo also claims that even after purchasing IBM's PC division, its international business has not been affected negatively. Interestingly, in an interview with the BBC, Lenovo mentioned that an open investigation or probe may negatively affect the way that the company deals with future government contracts or bids." There just has to be better uses of our intelligence community's time.

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  1. A better use of intelligence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    There just has to be better uses of our intelligence community's time.


    There is. You just don't hear about it.
  2. Re:Disagree on the last comment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    / It looks like someone is trying   \
    | to spy on you. Would you like to? |
    | *Save your changes and exit now.  |
    | *Trace the attackers IP.          |
    \ *Turn off these warnings.         /
       /
    __/
    olo
    |||
    \_/

  3. Re:The t3rr0r1st threat by symbolic · · Score: 3, Funny

    US Intelligence: "If there is any spying to do on Americans, WE'RE the ones that are going to do it!".

  4. Re:Everyone has spies here. by 9mm+Censor · · Score: 3, Funny

    Canada does. http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/ But they tend to lose Secret documents at hockey games, and their idea of tourture is feeding people poutine until they risk cardiac arrest before rushing them to the hospital for free health care, feeling sorry and giving people Citizenship for any hardship they faced, then calling it a day and going to drink beer and watch hockey.