From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4997288.stm

US government restricts China PCs

...

The US State Department says the 16,000 computers it bought from a Chinese
firm with links to the Beijing government will not be used for classified
work.

Assistant Secretary of State Richard Griffin said the department would also
alter its procurement process to ensure US information security was
guaranteed.

His comments came after Rep Frank Wolf expressed national security concerns.

The company Lenovo insisted such concerns were unwarranted and said the
computers posed no security risk.

...

Mr Wolf, Republican chairman of the committee that oversees the
department's funds, told reporters that China's spying efforts were
"frightening".

It was "no secret that the US is a principal target of Chinese
intelligence services", he said, adding: "No American government
agency should want to purchase from them".

...

But Lenovo insisted the state department computers, which were made at
former IBM facilities in North Carolina and Mexico, posed no security
threat.

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