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Surely Mossad are somewhere in there too? I can't imagine an intelligence agency not having an interest in this.
Surely Mossad are somewhere in there too? I can't imagine an intelligence agency not having an interest in this.
It is a clumsy implementation at best and not ideal for any covert operation, why would a serious intelligence agency have any interest in this?
Eh. Investors invest in lots of companies, some of which make pretty bad mistakes. I think Superfish should be forced to wither on the vine because of this - and especially because it pawned off responsibility by saying, "hey, it was those guys, not us!" as should Lenovo ("it is just theoretical!"), but I doubt the investors explicitly backed something with the intent to break security. Few do.
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It is a clumsy implementation at best and not ideal for any covert operation, why would a serious intelligence agency have any interest in this?
Free and easy intercepts with a straightforward "it wasn't us!".
even thgough im Palestinian and these guys are Israeli, should we really be blaming superfish? this company makes software, seams like a bunch of hackers to me. Lenovo is the real culprit here.
Superfish is profiting, they're being held accountable for their actions. Lenovo is responsible, they are being shamed duly.
The same happens with, for example, gun manufacturers and other war profiteers.
I'm not trying to pick a side here, just pointing out: blame doesn't need to fall on just one party. They are partners in crime.
>CoinBase, an similar anti-privacy company Really? How is looking at public blockchain data at all similar to installing malware?
See superfish advisors who are prof. from MIT, Yale... http://www.home.superfish.com/#!board-members/c1whv Professor Tomaso Poggio, PH.D – MIT Prof Lior Wolf – MIT/Tel Aviv Professor Yosi Keller – Yale/Bar-Ilan Olga Russakovsky, PH.D – Stanford (Fei-Fei) Ron Bekkerman, PH.D - University of Massachusetts
They're all in computer vision, machine learning, ect... I doubt they helped for more than the visual search engine.
even thgough im Palestinian and these guys are Israeli, should we really be blaming superfish? this company makes software, seams like a bunch of hackers to me. Lenovo is the real culprit here.
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They're all in computer vision, machine learning, ect... I doubt they helped for more than the visual search engine.
I doubt the investors really knew about the MITM attacks with the universal private key either. I think Superfish and Komodia did something bad, but the buck should stop with them.
It's kind of like a mob boss who says to his lieutenant, "Boy, it sure would be helpful to us if that grocery store burned down". How else were they supposed to monetize their tech? They did exactly what everyone else does and found a way to use it for advertising.
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They're all in computer vision, machine learning, ect... I doubt they helped for more than the visual search engine.
Unless they want to be connected to superfish forever, now is the time to publicly distance themselves from it.