Procurement conundrum | What’s inside the box?
When the State Department purchased 16,000 ThinkCentre desktop computers earlier this year from a company partially owned by the Chinese government, critics warned of the potential risks to national security. After State announced the deal with Lenovo Corp., fear ran rampant in some circles, most notably on Capitol Hill, that the Chinese government could bug computer systems with spyware and begin collecting critical intelligence. Full Story