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Lenovo Banned by U.S. State Department

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the somebody's-watching-me dept.

chrplace writes "The BBC is reporting that the Chinese-made Lenovo PCs are not allowed inside secure US networks." From the article: "Assistant Secretary of State Richard Griffin said the department would also alter its procurement process to ensure US information security was guaranteed. His comments came after Rep Frank Wolf expressed national security concerns. The company Lenovo insisted such concerns were unwarranted and said the computers posed no security risk."

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  1. At this point I would trust the Chinese more... by MrCode · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I have one of these Lenovos and I'm not too worried.

    But with all the latest NSA spying crap we are hearing about, I'm not so sure I can trust US manufacturers, who could leave a nice little backdoor for their NSA friends. If they will illegally spy on our phone calls, why not illegally spy on our PCs?

    Somehow the latter scenario seems a more valid conspiracy theory than Rep. Wolf's concerns.