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Thinkpads are owned by Lenovo, a known bad actor who installed, for example, rootkits on their own hardware.
by fartcannon 5y ago
Thinkpads are owned by Lenovo, a known bad actor who installed, for example, rootkits on their own hardware.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoNever the thinkpad.
- smoldesu 5y agoIf something comes preinstalled with Windows on it, it's going to be rootkitted anyways. There's also an argument to be made where we assume all commercial OSes are backdoored, but I think at this point playing the "muh security" card is a bit of a ruse. If you care about the stuff, you've already installed LTSC/Linux/BSD/Some special Windows distro.
- throwaway2048 5y agoit wasn't about pre-installed windows software, it was about software embedded in UEFI that reinstalled itself on windows even with a clean fresh non-lenovo provided installation of windows.
- thrashh 5y agoI give them a pass because their actions seem come from stupidity rather than maliciousness. Also while this was going on, they never did any of this to Thinkpads.