The
security and
control of personal data is a big concern for many these days and
literally it’s becoming a global epidemic. Today, China just announced
they
don’t trust
our beloved iPhone. Further underscoring today’s untrusting new world
order in the “post-Snowden” era, the Russian Industry and Trade Ministry
recently announced that their government would be
doing away with “untrusted Intel and AMD processors”
over time, while launching an effort to build their own ARM-based
“Baikal” processor and move to Linux for government systems. And hey,
ARM is a British multinational company but you can trust them much more
than the “spying” Americans, right? But of course.
It’s truly a sign of the times as what many have termed “the Snowden
Effect” continues to reverberate throughout the global economy. The
Chinese state media noted that
Apple's
iPhone is a “threat to national security” because the device tracks
user location and offers time-based information on their whereabouts at
any given time. Broadcasters noted the sensitivity of the data Apple’s
iPhone gathers and that it could reveal a country’s economic make-up and
even “state secrets.”
It’s not the first time the Chinese media or the government has taken issue with US-designed or built products;
Google ,
Microsoft and Cisco have all been under the microscope. China recently
dropped “the ban hammer” on Microsoft’s Windows 8 OS for use on any government computer
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