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Don't buy Lenovo, unless you like your Chinese spy machines
Can you give me some of the articles, studies, etc. which have convinced you of these laptops being chinease spyware?
I take it you don't remember the SuperFish scandal? Lenovo just settled the class action lawsuits not too long ago. I don't blame anyone for not trusting Lenovo after they sold PCs with built-in spyware that ran MITM attacks using self-signed certificates and hijacked their SSL/TLS connections. You really don't need a study for something that Lenovo admitting to doing.
I don't remember the superfish scandal, had never heard of it actually. Thank you telling me about it though, I was a child when this was a thing. Looks like it came out in 2015 and settled in 2017. That's not recent. Thank you again, I'm glad to know this, and won't think of Lenovo when suggesting laptops again.
I can understand the aggression you're giving me seeing as how you're being downvoted for something which may be a legitimate concern. I'm sorry for that, and would like to confirm I've not been participating. (Edit: sorry, you're not bigfig. This apology was to them) My thanks was honest. Though, I cannot see the link to it being a "chinease spyware" situation. Would you be able to provide links for that one? I see superfish is and was headquartered in california. What makes it chinease?
Edit: @[email protected] would you be able to advise? (BigFig)
For the lazy, here's some excerpts from a PCWORLD article:
(Big whoopsy daisy, we sent all your personal information to an add company, we really ballsed this one up)
Wow, maybe that one shouldn't be limited to 20 years. Maybe that one shouldn't be limited to lenovo, huh
I assume for the better right guys? right?
That ones fun
Here's the original article for the curious: https://www.pcworld.com/article/407332/lenovos-superfish-bloatware-scandal-reveals-a-sneaky-tactic-we-thought-microsoft-had-started.html
Bro you are fucking killing me right now
Please tell me he's a troll😭
My dude, that was 8 years ago. I am 23. There are people younger than you it's nothing to worry about. In high school I was not interested in pc companies, let alone privacy. This has since changed.
I was 15 when the news broke. I liked playing video games, pretending to be cool, and dnd.
You are a very strange person to believe me thanking this person for sharing their knowlage and changing my opinion accordingly is trolling. I'd think you were kidding if I hadn't come back to a new downvote on my two comments in this thread
All genuine people are old, bitter, and flame -happy. Ergo, anyone young or polite is a troll. Didn't you know that?
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