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Re:Lenovo Statement on Superfish by takluyver on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:47PM (#9076486)
I imagine that whoever made the decision in Lenovo didn't understand that's what they were doing. They heard "(technical jargon)... replaces some adverts on webpages... Profit!" and signed off on it.

That's not an excuse for this, but it smells like incompetence rather than deliberate malice (at least on Lenovo's part - Superfish/Komodia may be another story).

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Re:Lenovo Statement on Superfish by eropple on Thursday February 19, 2015 @03:51PM (#9076945)
I soundly reject the notion that everyone in Lenovo's chain of auditing and implementation just heard "technical jargon". No company is magically and universally nontechnical. And anyone who allowed this to pass and remains employed there is culpable.
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