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Well Lenovo is based in China, so suffers from the exact same security issues as Huawei, HikVision, Zoom and other arms of the government of China's intelligenc
by someperson 6y ago
Well Lenovo is based in China, so suffers from the exact same security issues as Huawei, HikVision, Zoom and other arms of the government of China's intelligence services who's goal is to siphon off all commercially valuable information and pass it on to private companies like Huawei . And as mentioned, Lenovo have already been caught bundling spyware.
There's no need to install overt spyware once caught the first time: It's easy to hide a backdoor in bundleware or a driver (whether proprietary or open source) to say, allow a well crafted network packet to pwn your machine while maintaining plausible deniability that it wasn't inserted on purpose. Like it or not you need to trust your vendors.
I take my chances with a US owned company, because even with a free press and whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, the US has not been caught doing mass scale theft of commercial information to give to private companies with the goal of saving them R&D costs to be internationally competitive.
- geogra4 6y agoZoom is an American company.
- dungdang 6y agoand apple is an irish company, and the cruiselines are barbados companies. it's crazy there's someone who doesn't know zoom is developed in and by chinese in china, yet here we are..
- pedrocx486 6y agohttps://technode.com/2020/05/15/zoom-suspends-chinese-individuals-users-from-hosting-meetings-due-to-regulatory-demand/ https://technode.com/2020/05/15/zoom-suspends-chinese-indivi... >US based
- throwaway5543 6y agoZoom is a US owned company.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoI’ll agree that is a valid concern, if your threat-model includes sensitive / secret data and state-level actor.
- someperson 6y agoAnybody who works at a company which produces goods or services and uses communication networks is a target. Even an Excel spreadsheet showing the financial forecasts of a 10 person company is very sensitive information. It can be used to craft compelling buyout offers. If the conversation between the CEO and the CFO of a 10 person company are discussing a Chinese buyout offer and are using a communications platform owned by China (whether a Motorola smartphone, a Huawei network router, or Zoom) the government of China has shown it is very interested the conversation is taking place, very interested in the contents of the conversation, and is willing to give the contents of its state espionage to its private companies to better compete.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoI’m not going to deny that is a concern.