[Infowarrior] - USG: Computers' Loyalty Questioned

[Richard Forno]

Computers' Loyalty Questioned

Speaking of how just about everything -- and not just low-tech stuff -- is
made in China these days, it seems the State Department has decided to buy
16,000 computers from Lenovo, a Chinese-owned company.

This set off the security sensors at the U.S.-China Economic and Security
Review Commission, especially over 900 of the computers that are to be part
of a classified network that would carry Pentagon as well as secret State
Department information.

That, in turn, set off the sensors in the office of Rep. Frank R. Wolf
(R-Va.). Wolf last week wrote the secretary of state to say he was
"distressed to learn that your department may be jeopardizing this [$4.2
billion] investment in a secure [information technology] infrastructure."

"These computers should not be used in the classified network," Wolf wrote.


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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/09/AR2006050901
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