The latest jingo tactic is the slander of Lenovo, the Chinese company that bought IBM's PC division. Two guys, who do not appear to be anywhere near expert in computers, let alone computer security, from something called the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission have convinced the State Department, via the chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the budget appropriations for the State Department, Commerce Department and Justice Department, that there maybe a phantom in the 16,000 computers the State Department recently bought from Lenovo and, thus, the computers should not be used on classified networks.
Lenovo makes the computers in the same factories IBM did with basically the same procedures and staff. Yet, two guys with no credentials in the field can damage Lenovo's business prospects because they think that maybe the Chinese put a bug in the computers. How would we react if China accused Citicorp, for example, of using its computer network to spy on China?
What's this globalization thing?
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