Not long after IBM sold its Thinkpad laptop division to a Chinese company in 2004, the State Department issued a ban on the laptops from being on the agency's network citing security risks from it being foreign-owned. Over the next two decades, the company would be a regular security concern, not just for its foreign ownership, but for having compromised security on its computers that would expropriate user data.
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Not long after IBM sold its Thinkpad laptop division to a Chinese company in 2004, the State Department issued a ban on the laptops from being on the agency's network citing security risks from it being foreign-owned. Over the next two decades, the company would be a regular security concern, not just for its foreign ownership, but for having compromised security on its computers that would expropriate user data.
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