New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mobile

Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by eropple on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:02PM (#23106012)

I wipe machines on arrival as a matter of course, so I never stopped buying Lenovo machines, but I only buy Thinkpads and AFAIK they were only pulling that shit with consumer-level machines (which are already a wasteland across most manufacturers—not an excuse, to be sure).

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by wrkronmiller on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:20PM (#23106270)

> busted using a firmware-based rootkit to reinstall their manufacturer spyware onto a freshly formatted OS install

Re-imaging the OS would not help in this case, so you would only be protected if Lenovo did not, in fact, put the rootkit on the Thinkpad line.

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by josteink on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:05PM (#23107604)

The other option is not running Windows, the only OS which is vulnerable to this UEFI malware injection.

And then you just don’t care about stuff like that, because it honestly doesn’t affect you the slightest.

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by tonyedgecombe on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:40AM (#23114157)

I still care because it's a strong indicator for the culture at Lenovo. If they were willing to do this then what else might they be doing that we haven't discovered yet.

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by eropple on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:36PM (#23107243)

TIL - I think I had mistaken it for that period of time when they were installing Superfish onto consumer machines. Thanks!

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