Marcus Brinkmann <marcus.brinkm...@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes: >If you trust anonymous leaks to the Financial Review by members of your >favourite spying agency network, then I guess its "evidence".
More importantly, look at the dates: The ban was introduced in the mid-2000s after intensive laboratory testing of its equipment allegedly documented 'back-door' hardware and 'firmware' vulnerabilities in Lenovo chips. In the mid-2000's, Lenovo PCs were still IBM Thinkpads (the sale to Lenovo happened in 2005). ZOMG! IBM backdoored them, not the Chinese! And to think that they've always been the most patriotic of computer manufacturers (Watson turned IBM over to the USG in both WWI and WWII). It was all a trick! So either the analysis found completely normal design features in IBM parts, or it's the usual USG paranoia about the Chinese. Yawn. Next story about the Yellow Peril due in six to eight weeks. Lather, rinse, repeat. Peter. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
