The Wall Street Journal is reporting that China’s government has now leant on ZTE to produce a smartphone using predominantly local hardware that’ll run COS, a homegrown operating system that’s designed to be immune to US-based hacking attempts. The paper goes on to say that Alibaba is now working with the nation’s ministry of public security to develop another operating system that’s secure enough for police officers to use. It’s all part of the country’s attempts to put water between itself and the US in a post-Snowden world after backdoors were found in numerous American-designed products.
Source: WSJ