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Is Your Antivirus Made By the Chinese Government?

Posted by samzenpus on from the great-security-wall dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:We'd never do such a thing by qpqp · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Would people continue to be stupid enough to install Symantec software to allow them to?

  2. Re:Witch-hunt by KnownIssues · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Cold War II. Now that we can't rely on the Soviet Union to instill fear and hate and competition in us, we've had to find the next imaginary (or at least, self-created) threat. If the Chinese are a "threat" to anything it's our imagined political and economic importance in the world. In that sense, the threat might be real. Rather than convince ourselves that we will maintain our position by virtue of being more ethically pure than them, perhaps we should focus on improving our own economic and political position.