Several Western Govts. Ban Lenovo Equipment From Sensitive Networks

Posted by timothy on Monday July 29, 2013 @12:06AM from the this-far-and-no-farther dept.

renai42 writes "If you've been in the IT industry for a while, you'll know that Lenovo's ThinkPad brand has a strong reputation with large organisations for quality, dating back to the brand's pre-2005 ownership by IBM. However, all that may be set to change with the news that the defence agencies of key Western governments such as Australia, the US, Britain, Canada and New Zealand have banned Lenovo gear from being used in sensitive areas, because of concerns that the Chinese vendor has been leaving back doors in its devices for the Chinese Government. No evidence has yet been presented to back the claims, but Lenovo remains locked out of sensitive areas of these governments. Is it fearmongering? Or is there some legitimate basis for the ban?"

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Re:Their loss by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-29 00:39 · Score: 5, Funny

And trust is easier lost than earned.
Indeed. I was trusting the NSA to backup all my data, and now they cannot even find their own emails. I guess I'll have to do my own backup, after all. ;-)