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Seems to be a lot of self-righteous moral crusaders on Twitter, and some on HN too, who won't be satisfied until they see Lenovo employees hanging from lamp pos

• kalkin 12y ago
  Not sure that you have to be especially self-righteous to think that there is some level of betraying user trust that ought to actually have some kind of negative consequences for people.
• PhasmaFelis 12y ago
  If this had been done by a private person instead of a corporation, they would be looking at prison time. The double standard is frustrating.
• joshuapants 12y ago
  Let's not get too hyperbolic here. Lenovo compromised user security for profit. There should be consequences for such gross misconduct.
• skywhopper 12y ago
  The people who made the decisions involved here essentially hacked hundreds of thousands of PCs and defrauded their customers. I don't expect anyone in Lenovo to be punished for a crime, but there's no doubt they did something clearly unethical and borderline illegal. Their best possible defense is that they were just incredibly negligent.
• veidr 12y ago
  Violent murder is not an appropriate response to this, but certainly somebody (probably multiple people in the upper echelons of Lenovo) should be fired. The damage to Lenovo's reputation from this is enormous. Even if 'average people' have no idea what a certificate is or why it's important, those who do have an outsized influence on PC purchasing, and are likely to remember this for years.