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China has reportedly ordered all foreign PC hardware and operating systems to be replaced in the next three years, intensifying an ongoing tech war. The country has attempted this sort of thing before halfheartedly, but this is the most serious effort yet to isolate itself from the influence of the western technology sector.

The order came from high up in the Chinese government earlier this year, according to a Financial Times report citing Chinese tech analysts. And hacking attacks are getting worse The 5 best VPN services in The biggest data breaches, hacks of My Profile Log Out. Add Your Comment. Wireshark creator joins Sysdig to extend it to cloud security Security. Enterprise Software. When open-source developers go bad Security.

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Higan develops integrated circuits, electronic information systems, software and computer system integration, while the Chengdu entities design X86 architecture chips and produce integrated circuits. In addition to being put on the entity list last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order essentially banning the company in light of national security concerns that Huawei had close ties with the Chinese government. Huawei has repeatedly denied that charge. Huawei has filed a motion in US court to have US legislation that bars federal agencies from buying its products ruled unconstitutional , and has also sent an ex parte memo to the FCC in which it objects to being banned on the grounds of national security threats.

Chinese local and national governments have started installing open-source software, and those migrations involving Linux have been given the most publicity. Local governments using Linux include the municipal government of the Chinese capital, Beijing, which is using 2, Linux desktops. Aside from Linux, other open-source products are supported by the Chinese government. The Chinese government has mandated the use of China-produced software in government departments , which has worked as a "strong driver" for open source, said Andrea DiMaio, a research director at analyst firm Gartner.

However, this law does not prevent the use of Chinese proprietary software and does not appear to be strictly enforced--Beijing has reportedly bought a "substantial quantity"of Microsoft software, for example.

The Chinese government has spoken of its support for open source on numerous occasions and has funded a number of open-source initiatives and research projects.