<html><head></head><body>Recall that Lenovo made all Thinkpads for IBM for years.<br>
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Hmm. Dell probably lobbied to approve the sale to Lenovo as Dell picked up the Federal laptop sales.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On February 19, 2015 1:58:17 PM EST, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale@acarver.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">I do wonder if there's a slightly darker purpose for the installation<br />considering Lenovo is in China.<br /><br />On 2015-02-19 09:42, Jim Kinney wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Another good reason to NEVER USE THE INSTALLED OS. <br /> <br /> ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS wipe the drive and install your own OS from known<br /> good media.<br /> <br /> But, hey! It's for windoze (l)users so it must not be a critical<br /> machine.<br /> <br /> <br /> On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 09:20 -0800, Alex Carver wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 2015-02-19 09:17, Alex Carver wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"> <a
href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections">http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections</a>/<br /></blockquote><br /> And once you read that article, read their corporate statement.<br /> <a href="http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1929">http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1929</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br /> Ale mailing list<br /> Ale@ale.org<br /> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br /> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br /> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br /></blockquote> <br /></blockquote><br /><hr /><br />Ale mailing list<br />Ale@ale.org<br /><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br />See JOBS,
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