Well, capacitors are hardly going to be listening in... but people call me a conspiracy theorist! FFS!
It is ture that a lot of other individual PCs parts are made in China, or other parts of Asia such as Taiwan. I imagine the issue is more or less related to the fact that the State Department does not want the software installed by a chineese company- afterall, the software is what determines most(all?) of the security on a PC. Really, the danger of allowing a partially communist owned company to install PCs for a US Embassy should be easy to spot. . . Even if the risk were to be pretty small, why take the risk? L J
The only danger I see here is that a politician might miss out on the opportunity to bash China for political gain. I read this as politics, pure and simple.
If you see no danger than perhaps I should find a man with mafia connections to install my home security system? He might do a good honest job, there might not be any leaks in the system, or I could choose to go with another well known company without the mafia types and lower the odds of haveing a leak in the security system. Yes, the threat is low. However, if the theat exists- and being partially owned by a branch of the Chineese government (granted the connection is not very strong) does hint towards a threat- than why risk national security? Given two items that the article presents 1) the US State Department is a target for Chinese intelligence, and 2) Lenovo is partially owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which happens to be a branch of the Chinese government, I shall side with the politicians on this one. L J
