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Apple, Microsoft and Other US Tech Companies Undergoing 'Security Reviews' in China (neowin.net) 34

An anonymous reader writes: Chinese government is keeping an ever watchful eye on the companies doing business in the country, especially when foreign companies compete with local ones. To that end, the Chinese authorities have begun a security review among many different American technology companies like Apple and others. These, while mostly done out of the public sphere, seem to target issues like encryption and data storage. According to a report from the New York Times (paywalled; alternate source), government representatives have been questioning engineers and executives from different technology companies with regards to these issues for the last nine months. The so-called security reviews are being done by the Cyberspace Administration of China, with the government committee including experts tied to the country's military and security agencies.The Verge has more details.
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Apple, Microsoft and Other US Tech Companies Undergoing 'Security Reviews' in China

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  • by headkase ( 533448 ) on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @09:02AM (#52127201)

    Hey, the USA should put back-doors in all encryption solutions! Then China could use them too..

    • by Anonymous Coward

      You dumbfuck. China demands front door access. Nothing about this is at all new or surprising. If you put about 20 seconds of thought into it, you'd realize that the only reason the iPhone has been allowed to succeed in China is because Apple has given the Chinese government wholesale access.

  • by Anonymous Coward

    Thanks, now we can reproduce your product.

  • Based upon the articles linked, passing these audits would be pretty damning for the companies involved.

    • They'll continue to bend over backwards for any corrupt government with a big enough market. It's a race to the bottom for the almighty renminbi.
  • Pull the factory's out and china may well be Fucked they can try making there own knock offs but the TPTA will stop that.

    • Pull the factory's out

      Pull the factory's what out? What does the factory have that needs pulling out, and out of where? Do many factories have this problem?

    • by gweihir ( 88907 )

      Hahahahaha, and how are you going to do that without bankrupting most of the US IT industry?

  • Absorbed... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Danathar ( 267989 ) on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @09:45AM (#52127441) Journal

    Xi reportedly concluded that the best path lay somewhere between these two, with the country needing to decide "which things can be imported but have to be secure and controllable," which tech can be "absorbed for re-innovation," and for "which things we must rely on our own strength and indigenous innovation."

    "absorbed for re-innovation,"

    Sounds like copying to me...

    • by balbeir ( 557475 )
      It's like re-education for individuals, but for companies. I'm sure they already are building massive camps somewhere.
  • If they work hard enough, maybe their economy can become as noncompetitive and laced with government cronies as the United States.
  • While you may not like the Chinese, their concerns are entirely valid. They want to know what amount of US backdoors and spying capabilities they buy with the devices and expose their people to. Sure, the Chinese do this themselves, but it is their country, so they rightfully wonder about foreign spying, regardless of what they do themselves.

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