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Re:Lenovo Statement on Superfish by tempestn on Thursday February 19, 2015 @01:25PM (#9075806)
Speaking of Lenovo being full of shit, there's also this gem:

> The relationship with Superfish is not financially significant; our goal was to enhance the experience for users.

Right. You loaded adware onto users' computers, not for financial gain, but to enhance the experience for them.

Re:Lenovo Statement on Superfish by Someone on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:43PM (#9076454)
There's also the difference between what they say:

  "We will not preload *this* software in the future."
and what they don't say:

  "We will not preload *such* software in the future."
(Emphasis added)
Re:Lenovo Statement on Superfish by compbio on Thursday February 19, 2015 @03:13PM (#9076660)
The entirely fictitious:

[Superfish technology sends your data to a third party ad server. We then use this data to create behavioral profiles on you, we process this data, and we monitor it. Finally we record all this data in our backups for up to 10 years.]

is consistent with:

To be clear, Superfish technology is purely based on contextual/image and not behavioral. It does not profile nor monitor user behavior. It does not record user information. It does not know who the user is.

edit: clarified.

Re:Lenovo Statement on Superfish by puredemo on Thursday February 19, 2015 @03:18PM (#9076694)
Where is the first line from?

Pretty egregious misrepresentation from Lenovo if that's true.

Re:Lenovo Statement on Superfish by JimmyM on Friday February 20, 2015 @04:58AM (#9079740)
I've been thinking about this. If I put my tinfoil hat on, I think they're telling the truth.

> The relationship with Superfish is not financially significant;

Again, with my tinfoil hat on, I believe this. I believe that either Israeli (check out Superfish's background and connections) or Chinese governmental groups have forced Lenovo into loading this awful malware onto its machines.

> our goal was to enhance the experience for users.

Not their goal in loading adware, but their goal in general. They are drawing a line (or semicolon) between what they wanted to do, and what the dark and mysterious forces behind Superfish forced them to do.

Again, tinfoil hat. This is all very conspiracy theory-ish.

Re:Lenovo Statement on Superfish by jacquesm on Thursday February 19, 2015 @01:36PM (#9075889)
I totally detest such language.
Re:Lenovo Statement on Superfish by ocdtrekkie on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:00PM (#9076078)
This was the greatest part of the whole document. Absolutely freaking hilarious.
Re:Lenovo Statement on Superfish by takluyver on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:39PM (#9076420)
Ads? No, this is extra, potentially relevant information! And at no extra cost!