Re:Apple's best product is now privacy
by danieldk on Friday September 14, 2018 @02:00PM
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When I get new Lenovo laptop, I immediately throw away their drive, put a bigger one and install Windows 7 from scratch.
At least for some time, this was not good enough. The shipped crap/spyware in the firmware and exploited Windows Platform Binary Table to inject their spyware into freshly installed Windows. So, even a clean disk and an official Windows CD didn't evade the spyware:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nas...
Luckily, desktop Linux/BSD is probably too obscure to be on their radar.
It is on their radar: https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2018/08/06/please-welcome-le...
Re:Apple's best product is now privacy
by spacehome on Friday September 14, 2018 @10:06PM
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That's disgusting. I wish this were illegal, because people deserve to be in jail over this.
Re:Apple's best product is now privacy
by matheusmoreira on Friday September 14, 2018 @11:08PM
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That's incredibly abusive.
The nice thing is they still give you drivers even to Windows 7.
When I get new Lenovo laptop, I immediately throw away their drive, put a bigger one and install Windows 7 from scratch.