[ale] Way to go Lenovo (not)

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Thu Feb 19 13:58:17 EST 2015


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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