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Buying a thinkpad means using a device made by Lenovo, a company which has repeatedly shipped devices infected with malware and backdoors (sometimes for profit)
by autoexec 6mo ago
Buying a thinkpad means using a device made by Lenovo, a company which has repeatedly shipped devices infected with malware and backdoors (sometimes for profit) see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_in...
- broken-kebab 6mo agoHe apparently wipes all of that when installing FreeBSD though.
- autoexec 6mo agoI wouldn't trust their firmware/hardware anymore than I would their software. I wouldn't encourage them as a company either.
- broken-kebab 6mo agoTrust is undef unless assessed within a context. We have zero reasons to trust more or less any vendor's firmware/hardware because they are unauditable. But from experience we can say it works most of the time and there's no discernible difference between Lenovo, Dell, or Apple
- bigyabai 6mo agoI hope it pays well, those Windows users are subsidizing some great hardware.