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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by fartcannon on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:09PM (#29084137)
Thinkpads are owned by Lenovo, a known bad actor who installed, for example, rootkits on their own hardware.
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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by thrashh on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:34PM (#29084565)
I give them a pass because their actions seem come from stupidity rather than maliciousness.

Also while this was going on, they never did any of this to Thinkpads.

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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by smoldesu on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:16PM (#29084273)
If something comes preinstalled with Windows on it, it's going to be rootkitted anyways. There's also an argument to be made where we assume all commercial OSes are backdoored, but I think at this point playing the "muh security" card is a bit of a ruse. If you care about the stuff, you've already installed LTSC/Linux/BSD/Some special Windows distro.
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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by throwaway2048 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:30PM (#29084500)
it wasn't about pre-installed windows software, it was about software embedded in UEFI that reinstalled itself on windows even with a clean fresh non-lenovo provided installation of windows.
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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by GhettoComputers on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:11PM (#29084172)
Never the thinkpad.
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