[ale] Way to go Lenovo (not)

[Jim Kinney]

Recall that Lenovo made all Thinkpads for IBM for years.

Hmm. Dell probably lobbied to approve the sale to Lenovo as Dell picked up the Federal laptop sales.

On February 19, 2015 1:58:17 PM EST, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
>I do wonder if there's a slightly darker purpose for the installation
>considering Lenovo is in China.
>
>On 2015-02-19 09:42, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Another good reason to NEVER USE THE INSTALLED OS. 
>> 
>> ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS wipe the drive and install your own OS from
>known
>> good media.
>> 
>> But, hey! It's for windoze (l)users so it must not be a critical
>> machine.
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 09:20 -0800, Alex Carver wrote:
>>> On 2015-02-19 09:17, Alex Carver wrote:
>>>>
>http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/
>>>
>>> And once you read that article, read their corporate statement.
>>> http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1929
>>>
>>>
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