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I wipe machines on arrival as a matter of course, so I never stopped buying Lenovo machines, but I only buy Thinkpads and AFAIK they were only pulling that shit
by eropple 7y ago
I wipe machines on arrival as a matter of course, so I never stopped buying Lenovo machines, but I only buy Thinkpads and AFAIK they were only pulling that shit with consumer-level machines (which are already a wasteland across most manufacturers—not an excuse, to be sure).
- wrkronmiller 7y ago> busted using a firmware-based rootkit to reinstall their manufacturer spyware onto a freshly formatted OS install Re-imaging the OS would not help in this case, so you would only be protected if Lenovo did not, in fact, put the rootkit on the Thinkpad line.
- eropple 7y agoTIL - I think I had mistaken it for that period of time when they were installing Superfish onto consumer machines. Thanks!
- josteink 7y agoThe other option is not running Windows, the only OS which is vulnerable to this UEFI malware injection. And then you just don’t care about stuff like that, because it honestly doesn’t affect you the slightest.
- tonyedgecombe 7y agoI still care because it's a strong indicator for the culture at Lenovo. If they were willing to do this then what else might they be doing that we haven't discovered yet.