Security Chip

[Mark Haney]

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On 02/21/2014 02:07 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> 
> i was trying to be delicate, but what i was told is that being 
> manufactured in china was enough to make them ineligible for entry 
> into secure US military installations. you can make of that what
> you wish -- it's what i was told by people in a position to know.
> 

AFAIK, that was a US Military mandate from almost the moment IBM sold
their laptop (PC?) business to Lenovo.  I worked in a Secure Facility
in Asheville, NC with the AF Combat Climatology unit there (I managed
the $3m HPCC that processed and delivered all weather data to them)
several years ago and that was about the time Lenovo bought that from
IBM.  It was a big deal then because quite a bit of the equipment in
that SCF were ThinkPads and the big question was what to do about
repair/replacements going forward.

(All that said, I have no problem being indelicate about it.  I mean,
the NSA reads all our crap anyway, why fret over the Chinese? reading
it, too?)


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Mark Haney
Network/Systems Administrator
Practichem
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