Whether this is related (IBM hitting back by cutting back on POWER7 server manufacturing in China) or just co-incidence, I'm installing a new POWER7 today and I see the serial number starts not with 10 (US - Rochester/Austin?), or 06 (China), but 21. Most of the recent ones I've installed have come out of China. I don't know where plant code 21 is, but from some of the packaging I saw that the server came in it could be be Mexico. I know years ago Canadian AS/400 model B10's came out of Mexico (Guadalajara I think) and had serial numbers starting with 78. I've also seen older iSeries systems with serial numbers starting with 44 (IBM Ireland I think).
Neil Palmer, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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On Wed, 11/13/13, sjl <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Subject: [PCTECH] Lenovo computers harwired for hacking?
To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx, cpf0000@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Received: Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 9:10 PM
http://poweritpro.com/blog/did-snowdens-revelations-kill-power-sales-china?NL=%28News_PIT_POWERITProNews_111313%29%20Batch&YM_RID=1626228
[...]
Talking of Lenovo, and in a delicious twist of irony, the
world's largest PC manufacturer has lost at least one key
customer. According to a report by British newspaper The
Independent in July, the U.K.'s MI5 and MI6 security
services refuse to use Lenovo hardware because they claim it
is hardwired for Chinese state hacking. It seems that
agencies in the U.S., Australia, Canada and New Zealand have
followed suit.
[...]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mi6-and-mi5-refuse-to-use-lenovo-computers-over-claims-chinese-company-makes-them-vulnerable-to-hacking-8737072.html
Britain’s intelligence agencies, including MI6 and MI5,
have allegedly banned the use of computers manufactured by
Chinese company Lenovo due to concerns that the machines
come hardwired with a vulnerability to hacking.
Machines produced by the state-backed technology company,
which is the largest PC producer in the world, are claimed
to have been found in tests by MI5 and GCHQ to have
modifications in their circuitry which could allow remote
access to the devices without the owners’ knowledge.
[...]
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