Lenovo Looking to Buy Seagate, May Raise Political Concerns

andy1307 writes "According to an article in the New York Times, Lenovo has expressed an interest in buying Seagate. This has raised concerns among American government officials about the risks to national security in transferring high technology to China. From the article: 'In recent years, modern disk drives, used to store vast quantities of digital information securely, have become complex computing systems, complete with hundreds of thousands of lines of software that are used to ensure the integrity of data and to offer data encryption.'"

Comments

War of Quality

[BillGatesLoveChild]

Seagate have given me years of rock-solid hard drivers. Own many, but never lost one due to failure.

Now Lenovo wants to buy them out? For all that is holy, stop them. China just doesn't get quality, and the hard drive is one place more than anything else in a PC where quality counts.

NO

[unity100]

excuse me, im no racist, but i dont want chinese in control of seagate. seagate is some firm that works exceptionally good. i dont want any mishaps happening after some other corp buying it and "restructuring". mergers and acquisitions thing is one of the most harmful concepts in business world.