As you may recall, way back over a year ago when Lenovo announced its intentions to buy IBM, congress stepped in to
call for an
investigation to make sure the
Commies Chinese megacorp wasn't going to be getting access to
anything sensitive or secret in IBM's labs or R&D facilities. Well, obviously
everything passed over
kosher, but now the US State Department's placing an order for 15,000 Lenovo PCs, and the US-China Economic and
Security Review Commission wants a thorough look through the machines to ensure they're not rigged with bugs and
spyware. Outside dismantling every single PC and freshly installing the OS themselves, we're not sure how they would
guarantee they'd be clean, which just goes to show you've really got to trust your PC manufacturer, especially if
you're the government. In all reality they're probably more likely to find a Sony backdoor than a Lenovo one,
anyway.
[Via
BoingBoing]