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China tells government offices to remove all foreign computer equipment (theguardian.com)
33 points by nwrk on Dec 9, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


Seems this could be a win-win for China:

- Increases the pressure of the trade war on the US.

- Motivates China's already strong technology industry to develop equivalent specification technology for all components, which it can also sell abroad.

- Removes the possibility of security compromised components from outside China and instead enables China to include its own backdoors wherever it wants.


Could also be a win for Lenovo laptop users if they improve their support for GNU/Linux, including offering it pre-installed. Which is the only option I can see open to them if they are replacing Windows.


The title misses " and software". Isn't Linux "foreign"?


So the gauntlet has been dropped and a new era ensues.


No, this is them hardening their infrastructure. Getting rid of all the external sourced backdoors.


I guess both




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