Re:Yet another pre-installed spyware app discovered on Lenov...
by jessaustin on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @02:01PM
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Sony are still in business, but they're not killing it like they were in the '80s and '90s. In fact one might see the rootkit thing as just one aspect of the long slow slide they've had for the last 1.5 decades.
Just because they don't care, doesn't mean they don't understand.
I suspect they are fully aware but money beats morality every time.
> I can think of no reasonable response but to abandon Lenovo products entirely.
I'm with you there, but I doubt enough people with buying power are concious about the issue for it to make much difference and most of those that are concious of it either will forget soon enough. I've not knowingly bought a product with Sony written on it since the rootkit incident in 2005, and that doesn't seem to have done them much harm!