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