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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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spagmumps, n.:
Any of the millions of Styrofoam wads that accompany mail-order items.
-- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 20 2018, @09:30AM
But... but... you mean free market doesn't guarantee individual freedom?
Like, if a powerful corporation has more to gain from abusing the users of their products/services, they'll do it and to hell with individual freedoms? (FB, Apple, Google and the lot, I'm looking at you too)
That's unpossible! The American-born multinationals used US to push the 'free-market is democracy and freedom' doctrine worldwide, in many cases at the muzzle of a gun. They wouldn't lie for a fistful of money, would they?