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Lenovo Looking to Buy Seagate, May Raise Political Concerns

Posted by Zonk on from the this-is-what-we're-worried-about dept.

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.'"

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  1. Care to elaborate? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Which Chinese products are "miss" for you? Do you actually personally have any Chinese make shit that did you wrong? Or are just hearing all that bad news and believe everything from China are poison? Quick, throw away that iPod, iPhone, laptop, Wii. Should I go on?

    You paranoid fool.

    Your truly, a lowly Chinese laborer

  2. Re:Oh my god, it's the Red Scare! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What fucking planet are you from? The U.S. Government DOES store TS/SCI data on commodity hard-drives, often times it is unencrypted... These disks manage to leave their SCIF'S quite often too. All it takes is one to get out in the wild. Why take the risk? The guy makes a good point.
    You must be fucking euro? Go smoke some dope and eat a crepe you silly fuck.