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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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(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday September 20 2018, @02:20PM
1) The ethics of a company are only those which are circumscribed upon them by external forces. [Nothing says any company MUST do business in China. If a company really wants to have their own spirit/morals/ethics they can say and then market that they won't do business with China, just like we have in the past to other regimes.]
2) Greed corrupts.
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