[ale] Way to go Lenovo (not)

[Jim Kinney]

Nice! Looks like parental spyware is exactly that - spyware. What a way
to collect passwords for banks and work email. Sell a spyware tool on
fearmongering and use that tool to do EXACTLY what they are afraid of.

On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 10:31 -0500, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> 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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