[ale] Way to go Lenovo (not)

[Alex Carver]

Yes, I do recall the sale.  Here at work we now only have Dell and HP
(plus Sun and Apple, too.) though I think there are some areas where
Lenovo-as-Thinkpad still shows up.

On 2015-02-19 11:02, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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