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> the department responsible for the preloaded junk is completely separate from the people doing security Lenovo's CTO stated, "We're not trying to get into an

> the department responsible for the preloaded junk is completely separate from the people doing security Lenovo's CTO stated, "We're not trying to get into an argument with the security guys. They're dealing with theoretical concerns." If the CTO and the department that's responsible for choosing the default software are both "completely separate" from everyone at Lenovo who has a clue about security, what does that say about Lenovo?

cnvogel 12y ago
The CTO also claimed that the preinstalled software would be appreciated by users ;-). So better take his words with a grain of salt. ❝In general, we get pretty good feedback from users on what software we pre-install on computers.❞ And yes, I'm pretty sure that security in third party software is at most an afterthought. Security holes hardly every are as blatant as the one created here, and my guess is that the normal process is to "just get an update from the vendor, should any security holes become apparent." With the constant change of bundled software, do you really think that a thorough security review takes place? I'm very sure that this will only be done on the utilities, tools and drivers that are built to operate on a much broader range of devices (e.g. the ugly "battery icon" power manager blemishing most Lenovo PCs' taskbars), will also be installed by "enterprise"-customers, and generally are maintained over longer time periods. The decision on including crapware certainly is done somewhere in marketing, and then just passed on to whoever has to build the default image.
- bobdvb 12y ago
  "pretty good feedback" could be interpreted as: 'the amount of hassle it causes us is (normally) less than the amount of revenue we get'