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Chinese Seek to Buy Seagate
this can't be good for users of hard drives, like us....
Chinese Seek to Buy a U.S. Maker of Disk Drives
By JOHN MARKOFF
American government officials have national security
concerns about a Chinese company's interest in acquiring
Seagate Technology.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/25/business/worldbusiness/25drive.html?th&emc=th
this can't be good for users of hard drives, like us....
Chinese Seek to Buy a U.S. Maker of Disk Drives
By JOHN MARKOFF
American government officials have national security
concerns about a Chinese company's interest in acquiring
Seagate Technology.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/25/business/worldbusiness/25drive.html?th&emc=th
“Seagate would be extremely sensitive,” said an industry executive who participates in classified government advisory groups. “I do not think anyone in the U.S. wants the Chinese to have access to the controller chips for a disk drive. One never knows what the Chinese could do to instrument the drive.”