Re:Lenovo Statement on Superfish
by eropple on Thursday February 19, 2015 @12:39PM
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This is not a mistake. This is an outright attack on the user, and it is straight-up disingenuous to claim it otherwise.
Anybody can MitM any HTTPS connection coming from these laptops. Anybody! The private key is public knowledge! This is so transcendentally bad and so impossible to implement without understanding the consequences that somebody should go to jail for this.
Anybody can MitM any HTTPS connection coming from these laptops. Anybody! The private key is public knowledge! This is so transcendentally bad and so impossible to implement without understanding the consequences that somebody should go to jail for this.
It is not a "mistake."