There's a scene in the movie The Rum Diary where Sanderson says roughly that the way to sell the public on the idea of building a hotel on an untouched island i

There's a scene in the movie The Rum Diary where Sanderson says roughly that the way to sell the public on the idea of building a hotel on an untouched island is to start by trying to build 20 hotels. Public outrage will occur, people will write their politicians, and finally a compromise will be reached, in which you get to build only one hotel. But the trick is, that's what you wanted to do in the first place. In the end, this compromise wasn't good enough: the result is still horrible. This is roughly what Lenovo is trying to pull off here. > Superfish was previously included on some consumer notebook products shipped in a short window between September and December to help customers potentially discover interesting products while shopping. This is the compromise being offered. They're claiming, "We didn't violate your privacy, we didn't violate your security, we just wanted to help you discover interesting products." Superfish opens up all sorts of security holes and privacy concerns, but it's probably true that this wasn't Lenovo's intention (not yet, anyway). But to accept this as a compromise would be to give Lenovo the thing they want in the first place: to serve ads into our web searches. And that in itself is deplorable. It is not acceptable for companies to force their agendas on us. Lenovo's only defense here is that they were doing something disgusting. We should not accept this compromise.