[ale] Way to go Lenovo (not)

[Charles Shapiro]

More fun with superfish.  Looks like a bunch more Winders PCs are more
vulnerable than Lenovo has admitted.  The new watchword is "komodia".
Y'all have fun out there.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150219/16143030074/lenovo-quietly-deletes-that-bit-about-no-security-concerns-to-superfish-while-superfish-says-no-consumers-vulnerable.shtml

-- CHS


On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wipe the drive and install Linux. Problem Solved.
> On Feb 19, 2015 9:10 PM, "James Earl Smith" <feenix3k at aim.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh joy I have one of these lemons. What should I do with it :-(
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
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