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Tell your non-tech friends not to buy Lenovo. Tell them why. Make it sound scary. If they buy one, go all sad and serious. There's not going to be any signific
by a3n 12y ago
Tell your non-tech friends not to buy Lenovo. Tell them why. Make it sound scary. If they buy one, go all sad and serious.
There's not going to be any significant (like, existentially damaging) legal or financial punishment. But a big enough drop in sales, even short term, might be the "whiff of grapeshot" that could discourage them and others from breaking security out of the box for a few dollars.
- hga 12y agoThere's not going to be any significant (like, existentially damaging) legal or financial punishment. I wouldn't be a 100% about that. Things like this have a way of trundling along until a big enough atrocity happens, and then the system will react, often overreact. Arthur Andersen is a good and recent example of the latter, verdict reversed unanimously on appeal to the Supremes, but the company was long dead by then. And it had been one of the "Big Five" accounting firms. Which is not to say I'm not also following a policy of punishing them in the market.