China's government has excluded from the list of Apple products equipment authorized for the procurement budget. This was reported by Bloomberg Wednesday edition, citing its own sources.
This decision was made for safety reasons, the agency clarified. It is about 10 units of the U.S. giant computer electronics, including the iPad, iPad Mini, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro.Products "apple" of the company, the operating system which is created and maintained in the U.S., are very easy remedy and method for obtaining information of any plan, they say in China.
Several days ago, Bloomberg also reported that the ban on procurement touches as antivirus software produced by the Russian "Kaspersky Lab" and American Symantec. China has stepped up monitoring of foreign software after the promulgation of Edward Snowden information about IT-exploration U.S. National Security Agency.
In May, the Russian Interior Ministry (MVD) imposed a ban on the use of agency staff and managers of electronic iPad. With innovations planned to fight the leakage of sensitive data during meetings, exercises and tests, as well as attempts by Western intelligence services to obtain sensitive information remotely.
Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that he considers ridiculous abandon the products Apple, so to harm the United States. "Let us then abandon any import things, and that we will have? North Korea? It is not our way, "- said Medvedev, answering journalists' questions, if he was going to abandon the American gadgets due to the worsening relations between the countries.