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Can someone with one of these laptops connect to https://www.howsmyssl.com/ and post what it says? I'm curious what cipher suites are used from the proxy to the real site.
http://i.imgur.com/YyawOxc.png http://i.imgur.com/V33bYuv.png
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Anyway to see if that certificate is on a Lenovo computer? Anyway to remove it? I bought a Lenovo laptop recently, and I was appalled at the amount of crapware that was installed. It's a wonderful laptop at a great price, just too bad about the software.
Check Certificate Management in mmc.exe (Add Snap-In).
Jebus, how far the might IBM laptop line has fallen under the leadership of Lenovo. There was a time when a ThinkPad was arguably the best laptop money could buy. Many companies, including Google, would offer a choice between a ThinkPad or a MacBook, because those were the really reliable choices that were free of shovelware. I even considered buying a Lenovo recently when a pretty nice looking ThinkPad was on sale,…
Is it even possible to buy a Windows laptop right now with only the OS installed? This is exactly why I've been recommending Chromebooks to anyone who asks my advice for about a year now.
Lenovo going down the drain. All they had to do was continue the Thinkpad legacy left by IBM. It's honestly breathtaking how badly they've fucked up. After the touch-based function keys, ruining the trackpoint buttons and now this. It's unbelievable.
They brought the trackpoint buttons back on the latest line and you can switch the F-keys back to being the defaults via a bios setting. Just in case you were curious.
This is much worse than just installing adware. They install a web proxy which MITMs all web connections, including HTTPS by means of a pre-installed trusted root certificate. The root certificate is the same across all installs, and the private key is present on the machine (necessarily, to operate the proxy): https://twitter.com/fugueish/status/568258997578371072 Someone will extract the private key in the next few…
Here's Lenovo trying to justify the presence of this software, naturally oblivious to the security implications: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-P-Y-and-Z-series/Lenovo-...
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Is it even possible to buy a Windows laptop right now with only the OS installed? This is exactly why I've been recommending Chromebooks to anyone who asks my advice for about a year now.
You can buy "Microsoft Signature" machines from the MS stores and online. Hopefully the words will spread.
Ugh. So for "developer-tier" laptops, i.e. not a netbook, does that pretty much leave Apple as the sole non-shit laptop maker? Is there a chromebook out there that runs linux pretty well if you pull chromeOS off? You pay a hefty premium for that backlit Apple logo on the lid, and I'd prefer to get something a little more down-to-earth.
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They brought the trackpoint buttons back on the latest line and you can switch the F-keys back to being the defaults via a bios setting. Just in case you were curious.
And they never preinstalled this on ThinkPads as far as I know.
One can only hope that they keep Motorola as an independent business unit.
Ugh. So for "developer-tier" laptops, i.e. not a netbook, does that pretty much leave Apple as the sole non-shit laptop maker? Is there a chromebook out there that runs linux pretty well if you pull chromeOS off? You pay a hefty premium for that backlit Apple logo on the lid, and I'd prefer to get something a little more down-to-earth.
