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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 20 2018, @11:24AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 20 2018, @11:24AM (#737447)

    > If you want good software, make it expensive to produce not-good software.

    You won't be able to afford any software if that happens. How is that better?

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Thursday September 20 2018, @03:22PM

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday September 20 2018, @03:22PM (#737542) Journal
    You need some hardware before you can worry about the software.

    In a sane market (we had one of those decades ago) the hardware manufacturers are happy to fund the development of the bits of software needed to adapt the general system to their hardware. Otherwise few would buy it. Primarily that would be drivers and any necessary compiler extras. Once that's done, the entire library of code becomes available to that machine - all at no (additional) charge to the customer.

    That's WAY better, in every way, than what we see today.
    --
    If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 21 2018, @01:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 21 2018, @01:41AM (#737925)

    > If you want good software, make it expensive to produce not-good software.

    You won't be able to afford any software if that happens. How is that better?

    Linus could quadruple the price and I'll STILL buy it.