Re:Dell does a Superfish, ships PCs with self-signed root ce...
by coreyp_1 on Monday November 23, 2015 @01:26PM
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Seriously, why do these technology companies do this?!?
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Re:Dell does a Superfish, ships PCs with self-signed root ce...
by delish on Monday November 23, 2015 @02:31PM
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I find it funnny that "seriously" in your post turns your sentence into a rhetorical one. Still I'll try to answer your question.
Large companies make ten thousand software changes per year, a few of them are bound to be perceived as dangerous and nefarious. For me, the stasistical view is more useful than the attempt to find motive.
I don't blame them. 99% of their changes are benign. but I don't suffer the illusion that they're consciously working in my interest. Asking, "why did they do this?" implies that that this action is different from past ones. I group all those actions together as "actions of a large corporation."
edit: phrasing.