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U.S. State Deptartment to Limit Chinese Computer Use

Talk about your conspiracy theories...

A Reuters newswire article, via eWeek, reports that:

The U.S. State Department, reacting to security concerns after its purchase of computers from a Chinese company, will not use the equipment for classified information, an aide to Virginia Republican Rep. Frank Wolf said Thursday.

In March, the State Department said it had purchased a batch of computers from China's Lenovo Group Ltd.

At the time, Michael Wessel, a member of the congressionally created U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, said the purchase should be investigated, especially if codes embedded into the computers could be remotely activated.

posted by Fergie @ 5/18/2006 02:28:00 PM