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Why would you ever trust a company that did that in the first place?
by nojito 6y ago
Why would you ever trust a company that did that in the first place?
- nix23 6y agoWhy would you ever trust Hardware and or proprietary Soft/Firmware.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoI mean, if we're never trusting anyone who ever did anything wrong, we might as well give up now. I'm presuming either the people who transgressed in that scenario have learned, or they're no longer in a position to make those decisions, or there's more oversight etc etc etc, and / or that the community is more vigilant.
- joveian 6y agoOften because there is little practical choice. For example, Dell seems to have done the same type of thing after the Superfish incident: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/superfish-20-now-dell-breaking-https https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/superfish-20-now-dell-... Personally, I try to avoid Dell because they set up their laptops such that the display doesn't work if the backup battery is dead, a move that seems entirely designed to make customers think that something more serious is wrong. Relatedly, they make the battery hard to reach (or at least made in two previous models I've seen). The trick is finding companies that are minimally decent.
- codeisawesome 6y agoOh gosh yuck, I didn't know about this. At least, the cert seems to be installed at OS level (https://duo.com/assets/pdf/Dude,_You_Got_Dell_d.pdf https://duo.com/assets/pdf/Dude,_You_Got_Dell_d.pdf) instead of BIOS (like on Lenovo) - but now I'm as wary of Dell as I am of Lenovo =/