They changed their statement. Now there is no mention of the issue not being "security concern" (http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1929)
Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless
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#22That's one example of management being utterly technologically incompetent, which unfortunately is the case in a lot of Chinese companies.
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#23Great... I'm the last person in the startup world still using a PC, and it happens to be a Lenovo.
Is it a Thinkpad, or a consumer model? The Thinkpads were never involved in this.
Thinkpad T430s. It's a year old so I'm in the clear upon more detailed reading of the article. I usually do a clean install but when I bought this box it came installed with Win 7 and the discs I got were Win 8 only. Didn't come with a Win 7 serial. This is what I get for buying from a reseller on Amazon.
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#24Note that Lenovo has now removed the statement from their article:
“We have thoroughly investigated this technology and do not find any evidence to substantiate security concerns.”
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#25Microsoft is currently doing Lenovo's work for them: https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/568800260111388672 The latest version of Windows Defender is actively removing the Superfish software and the cert. The text of the definition is here: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=us7iXvkn
15 years ago this would have led to rioting on slashdot and Usenet. How dare Microsoft remove someone else's software?
I'm generally in favor of MS doing this specific thing, but there is potential for abuse here.
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#26Kudos to MS, srsly. lol the amount of positive press that MS has been garnering recently on HN is impressive.
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#27"Beijing-based computer maker Lenovo has reportedly been blacklisted for years by spy agencies worldwide, as concerns about government-sanctioned Chinese hacking persist. According to the Australian Financial Review, Australia, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and the US have all rejected Lenovo machines for their top-secret networks since the mid-2000s, though the computers can be used for lower-security tasks that don'…
Why buy a laptop from a company that has ties to the Chinese government [2], an authoritarian government that supports dictators in Africa and totalitarian government in Russia, oppressing women and children in those countries?
I guess because they make good hardware.
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#28"Beijing-based computer maker Lenovo has reportedly been blacklisted for years by spy agencies worldwide, as concerns about government-sanctioned Chinese hacking persist. According to the Australian Financial Review, Australia, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and the US have all rejected Lenovo machines for their top-secret networks since the mid-2000s, though the computers can be used for lower-security tasks that don'…
Why buy a computer from a company that has ties to the US government, an authoritarian government that supports dictators in Africa, the Middle-East, South America, and East Asia, including torture, drug smuggling, misogyny, and has itself engaged in abduction, detention without trial, and in relation to this case, illegal interception of communications?
Re: Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless
#29Microsoft is currently doing Lenovo's work for them: https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/568800260111388672 The latest version of Windows Defender is actively removing the Superfish software and the cert. The text of the definition is here: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=us7iXvkn
15 years ago this would have led to rioting on slashdot and Usenet. How dare Microsoft remove someone else's software? I'm generally in favor of MS doing this specific thing, but there is potential for abuse here.
Agreed. Seems like the lesser of two evils in this case. I applaud MSFT for realizing that the vast majority of their users will not have the impetus nor the requisite skill to remove this from their machine.
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#30"Beijing-based computer maker Lenovo has reportedly been blacklisted for years by spy agencies worldwide, as concerns about government-sanctioned Chinese hacking persist. According to the Australian Financial Review, Australia, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and the US have all rejected Lenovo machines for their top-secret networks since the mid-2000s, though the computers can be used for lower-security tasks that don'…
Well because they were making darn good hardware. I had my T60 for many many years. Carbon X1 seems nice.
Now I ended up buying a cheap ASUS Chromebook for traveling, replaced drive with a large one and installed Ubuntu. But still haven't decided if I want to replace my main machine.
Was eyeing Carbon X1 models for a while, but now will have to rethink.
Besides, like some people here, I always wipe everyone out and reinstall my own distro on it (Ubuntu usually).