http://poweritpro.com/blog/did-snowdens-revelations-kill-power-sales-china?NL=%28News_PIT_POWERITProNews_111313%29%20Batch&YM_RID=1626228
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Talking of Lenovo, and in a delicious twist of irony, the world's largest PC manufacturer has lost at least one key customer. According to a report by British newspaper The Independent in July, the U.K.'s MI5 and MI6 security services refuse to use Lenovo hardware because they claim it is hardwired for Chinese state hacking. It seems that agencies in the U.S., Australia, Canada and New Zealand have followed suit.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mi6-and-mi5-refuse-to-use-lenovo-computers-over-claims-chinese-company-makes-them-vulnerable-to-hacking-8737072.html
Britain’s intelligence agencies, including MI6 and MI5, have allegedly banned the use of computers manufactured by Chinese company Lenovo due to concerns that the machines come hardwired with a vulnerability to hacking.
Machines produced by the state-backed technology company, which is the largest PC producer in the world, are claimed to have been found in tests by MI5 and GCHQ to have modifications in their circuitry which could allow remote access to the devices without the owners’ knowledge.
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