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In a company as big as Lenovo, I'd be kind of surprised if the person or persons who decide what bloatware to load onto the consumer image make any sort of hard
by sjolsen 12y ago
In a company as big as Lenovo, I'd be kind of surprised if the person or persons who decide what bloatware to load onto the consumer image make any sort of hardware decisions.
There's also that this particular kind of compromise is basically inapplicable to hardware. What are they going to do, put a 3G radio in your laptop that broadcasts your "data" via the cell network to Belarus?
- waps 12y agoThis provides some details : http://thehackernews.com/2015/02/hard-drive-firmware-hacking.html http://thehackernews.com/2015/02/hard-drive-firmware-hacking... So no, they'll get a rootkit process running on your machine and (for instance) upload everything on your hard drive through your web browser. Another thing they've done is to upload hacked drivers to cause other hardware connected to the infected machine to physically destroy itself.
- sjolsen 12y agoThere's a big difference between Lenovo selling bloatware rights to an adware company and the NSA (or whoever) bugging some hard drives. Is that spyware Windows-specific?