In another case, he points to the Chinese security technology firm NSFocus, which had its products analyzed by the code-auditing firm Veracode ahead of offering them internationally.

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Fu Liquan is the chairman of Zhejiang Dahua Technology, a supplier of security and surveillance products.

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These are technology savvy enterprises that use leading security products and have strict security policies and procedures in place.

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Critics say India could use the pretense of security concerns to cover a broad swath of technology products and questioned the logic of the proposed move.

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Yet ironically, as Microsoft slowly improves the security of its products by, for instance, incorporating firewall technology, anti-virus systems and spam filters its actions increasingly start to resemble those that, in the past, have got the firm into trouble with regulators.

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