I imagine Lenovo wants to tell you the truth but has the CCP's tank barrels pointed at their back. Further evidence that buying from autocratic regimes comes a

I imagine Lenovo wants to tell you the truth but has the CCP's tank barrels pointed at their back. Further evidence that buying from autocratic regimes comes at a risk. I wouldn't run Kaspersky either, especially after Wired exposed their connections to the FSB and Russian military. http://www.wired.com/2012/07/ff_kaspersky/all/ http://www.wired.com/2012/07/ff_kaspersky/all/ If this was going on with a US OEM, people would assume the NSA. But with Lenovo (which the US government refuses to buy btw) and Huwai and other non-vendors for the USG, HN'ers have regularly defended them and claimed the US was being paranoid or protectionist. How the hell do you think a fucking MITM gets onto a production image? This is financial suicide for Lenovo and they know it. This has all the telltale signs of government collusion. The CCP has a lot more to gain from stuff like this than Lenovo has to lose. How many people have been compromised from ship date until the day this gets uninstalled? Millions? For how many months? Years? That's a lot of SSL sniffing available to the CCP.