Lenovo Under U.S. Probe for Spying

BigControversy writes "The DailyTech has a report indicating that Lenovo, the giant Chinese PC manufacturer, is under a probe by the U.S.-China Economic Security Review Commission (USCC) for possible bugging. Apparently, the government has ordered 16,000 PCs from Lenovo but is now requesting that Lenovo be investigated by intelligence agencies. The fear is of foreign intelligence applying pressure to Lenovo to equip its PCs so that the U.S. can be spied on." From the article: "Despite the probe, Lenovo says that its international business, especially those that deal with the US, follow strictly laid out government regulations and rules. Lenovo also claims that even after purchasing IBM's PC division, its international business has not been affected negatively. Interestingly, in an interview with the BBC, Lenovo mentioned that an open investigation or probe may negatively affect the way that the company deals with future government contracts or bids." There just has to be better uses of our intelligence community's time.

Summary correction.

[tpgp]

The fear is of foreign intelligence applying pressure to Lenovo to equip its PCs so that the U.S. can be spied on."

Should read:

The fear is of the Chinese Trade Gap [csmonitor.com] widening further

Fixed! (Its a joke for the humour impaired)

This makes perfect sense

[JamesD_UK]

After all, it'd be so easy to find a PC that didn't have any components made in China. Where's the sarcasm tag? :-)

"PC comes pre-loaded with spyware"

[peter303]

Though Windows/IE takes less than an hour on average to become infected with spyware after connecting to the Net, Lenevo saves you the trouble by pre-loading it.

(A joke, not a troll)

Jerry Taylor In Tuttle

[XMilkProject]

Probably they should ship the laptops to Jerry Taylor [slashdot.org] in Tuttle, Oklahoma for inspection.

A better use of intelligence

[Anonymous Coward]

There just has to be better uses of our intelligence community's time.

There is. You just don't hear about it.

Re:Disagree on the last comment

[Anonymous Coward]

/ It looks like someone is trying   \
| to spy on you. Would you like to? |
| *Save your changes and exit now.  |
| *Trace the attackers IP.          |
\ *Turn off these warnings.         /
   /
__/
olo
|||
\_/

Re:The t3rr0r1st threat

[symbolic]

US Intelligence: "If there is any spying to do on Americans, WE'RE the ones that are going to do it!".

Re:Everyone has spies here.

[flyingsquid]

Hell, no doubt even Canada has a few.

Canada would never spy on the U.S. As an employee of the CIA, I can assure you that you have no idea what you're talking aboot, eh?

Re:Everyone has spies here.

[9mm Censor]

Canada does. http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/ [csis-scrs.gc.ca] But they tend to lose Secret documents at hockey games, and their idea of tourture is feeding people poutine until they risk cardiac arrest before rushing them to the hospital for free health care, feeling sorry and giving people Citizenship for any hardship they faced, then calling it a day and going to drink beer and watch hockey.

Re:Disagree on the last comment

[Anonymous Coward]

Funny, and most likely a valid Perl program as well. Bravo!