Re:Introducing Surface Book 2
by scholia on Monday October 23, 2017 @12:00PM
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How likely is it that someone would describe Lenovo Service Engine or Lenovo Accelerator as Chinese spyware?
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How would you describe it? Lenovo is a Chinese multinational company and Lenovo Service Engine phoned home with personal information. How do you describe spyware?
I get that companies may not have bad motives. It's difficult to survey users real-life use cases. But companies have abused users with pre-installed software that's slow, poorly written, creates new vectors for exploit, shares "anonymous" information that often isn't a) secured properly or b) still personally identifiable.