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    US State Department bans Lenovo

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Pressure, May 19, 2006.

  1. Pressure

    Pressure Notebook Evangelist

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    Sorry for the out-of-topic but this is a good laugh.

    More here.
     
    Pressure, May 19, 2006
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  2. Ice-Tea

    Ice-Tea MXM Guru NBR Reviewer

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    Perhaps someone should tell them 90% of all the gear is produced in Taiwan, Korea and China, eh? :D
     
    Ice-Tea, May 19, 2006
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  3. Unreal

    Unreal Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Yeah l can't think of any laptops that aren't made in that region of the world..
     
    Unreal, May 19, 2006
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    strikeback03 Notebook Deity

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    suppose they could replace the hard drives and rewrite the BIOS if they are that concerned.
     
    strikeback03, May 19, 2006
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    The US Congress are a bunch of techno-ignoromies. They don't even allow notebooks on the house or senate floors. It's not surprising that they would do something like this. They consistently met or exceed my extremely low expecations of them.
     
    Nooorm, May 19, 2006
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  6. Ice-Tea

    Ice-Tea MXM Guru NBR Reviewer

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    I don't think you understand just how parenoia these security types are.

    Some major banks do not allow network printers because they fear the embedded soft can be reflashed to hack the network :cool:
     
    Ice-Tea, May 20, 2006
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    if working in government and knowing thse facts, I would do the same really
     
    boon27, May 20, 2006
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  8. Yamaraj

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    When it comes to security, it's usually the man rather than machines.
     
    Yamaraj, May 23, 2006
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  9. dietcokefiend

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    Oh god the POWER SUPPLIES AND PALMRESTS WILL SPY ON US!!!1111

    Its so like governments to be so caught up in regulations and crap to think that computers are all out to get you, a secret transmitters and crap will find out what you are doing. Wipe the drives, sniff outgoing TCP packets, and you will see that you are just too out of the times to realize that you are making fools of yourself. I bet the FBI computer crimes department and all the various other tech places are laughing there butts off at this move.
     
    dietcokefiend, May 23, 2006
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