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Lenovo: Companies Working in China May Have to Install Local Backdoors

posted by mrpg on Thursday September 20 2018, @08:36AM   
from the I-may-have-to-hack-you dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Lenovo: Companies working in China may have to install local backdoors

Does Lenovo put backdoors in if the Chinese government asks? "If they want backdoors globally? We don't provide them. If they want a backdoor in China, let's just say that every multinational in China does the same thing."

"We comply with local laws. If the local laws say we don't put in backdoors, we don't put in backdoors. And we don't just comply with the laws, we follow the ethics and the spirit of the laws."

And then, with a final flourish, the answer. "Likewise, if there are countries that want to have access, and there are more countries than just China, you provide what they're asking."

See also: Lenovo CEO: 'We're not a Chinese company, we're a global company'

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• Solution! ok, not really... (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday September 20 2018, @05:22PM

  by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Thursday September 20 2018, @05:22PM (#737610) Journal

  let's just say that every multinational in China does the same thing

  Then don't use products of multinationals. Note to self.... if ever traveling to China, first develop your own computer from the ground up, just for what you intend it for, and bring that with. (then promptly be tagged as a spy when their spyware won't work on you and their backdoors don't give them access....)

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