According to a report of Australian Financial Review , the world's governments the world, including Australia, America, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, aka the "Five Eyes" have banned their intelligence services and defense of the use of computers designed by Chinese company Lenovo.
The report states that the ban has been in place since 05, the year that Lenovo acquired the PC arm of giant IBM computer. Although that company continues to do business in servers and mainframes for governments, Lenovo was abandoned. It has been suggested that this is yet another aspect of Prism revelations :. Since the five governments shared information using the same classified networks, it is obviously essential that all adopt the same security policies justification of the ban is apparently due intense safety testing performed on computers that have found vulnerabilities not only in equipment but also in the firmware. The prohibition of the study and after specifically to "malicious circuits" and firmware built into the chipsets manufactured in China native of Lenovo. The tests, conducted by MI5 and MI6, discovered the potential for backdoor access to systems. This could actually allow people with knowledge of the system to remotely access any device, without triggering any alarm.
Reacting to the news, Lenovo rejected the old ban ten years or so, noting that the same governments still use their technology to unclassified networks. A Lenovo spokesman said its products have "been found time and again to be reliable and secure with our business and public sector clients and we always welcome their commitment to ensure that we meet their needs security. "
As indicated in the Daily Telegraph , the Home office of the UK refused to disclose if they make use of Lenovo products for secret networks of the United Kingdom in a press statement, GCHQ said: "As. a matter of policy we do not routinely discuss the names or the nature of suppliers GCHQ on all aspects of our business. "
If you have concerns about the safety of the computer, you can help to make your data more secure by using a VPN service. the VPN functions as an additional protective layer that sits between the data stored on your device and any external users attempting to access them.
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