Every time we do projects , we do everything to make the IT solution’s secure and try our best shot to make it less vulnerable ( no one can guarantee full security ). But we generally pay 100% attention to the software part but what about hardware ? THINK TWICE.Your views may change immediately after this :
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4997288.stm
2. http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/uncle-sam-fears-chinese-pcs-may-be-bugged/2006/05/20/1147545558131.html
3. http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/19/1238255
4. http://it.slashdot.org/story/06/03/30/1344211/Lenovo-Under-US-Probe-for-Spying
5. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/06/05/22/0436250/US-Government-Fears-China-Bugs-Lenovo-PCs
Although those are old news , and their is no guarantee that things like those had actually happened in the past. But may be this is the reason that why thing like following happens :
1. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100407/jsp/frontpage/story_12311784.jsp
2. http://cyberarms.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/chinese-hackers-attack-india/
But the big question “Is their any precaution we can take regarding this ?”. I have reported this to few Government Organization’s where we submitted our tender bids during the eWebSolution’s starting days, but outcomes were sometime good and majority of time bad. 
If you know any solution to problems like this, please comment , on the other hand I would love to see any Indian company coming up with reliable own manufactured Hardware’s 