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Re:Lenovo: researchers find 'massive security risk' by ethbro on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @01:39PM (#9500383)
*> Because a person might want to tune the performance of their laptop in regard to power consumption.

That's what exposing BIOS settings are for.

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Re:Lenovo: researchers find 'massive security risk' by vidarh on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @01:25PM (#9500279)
You have described why there might be an interface for fan control that software could use. It does not justify not having the board opt for sane defaults.
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