Is Your Antivirus Made By the Chinese Government?

guanxi writes "Huawei, a large Chinese telecom and IT company with close ties to the Chinese military has faced obstacles doing business in other countries, because governments are concerned about giving them access to critical infrastructure. Huawei Symantec is a joint venture with one of the world's largest IT security companies which sells security products in the US. Would the Chinese or other governments take the opportunity to create back doors into western IT networks? Wouldn't they be crazy not to?"

Comments

I don'tt have an "antivirus"

[Eunuchswear]

Why would I need one?

If I did need such a bizzare thing how on earth could it be made to work?

Instead of back doors...

[geobeck]

Why not just make Symantec products such bloated resource hogs they slow down western computers, reducing US productivity as workers wait for their cursor to follow every mouse movement?

Um... How long has Symantec had ties to China?

Re:We'd never do such a thing

[ThePromenader]

Well, if everyone's going to be getting into everyone else's back door, the best we can hope for is an all-round reacharound.

I can still access the tiananmen square wiki page

[Drakkenmensch]

So I'm gonna guess mine isn't.

Re:We'd never do such a thing

[SniperJoe]

Oh come on, that's easy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress