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Unless it's Lenovo, then it's evil and should be destroyed.
Lenovo is one of those companies like Blackberry - no matter how terrible (I've had nothing but great luck with my Lenovo laptop...lasted me 4 years of hard work constantly with school work), their contracts with the government is enough to keep them afloat.
You severely underestimate the rest of the population.
Um... Jon. None of that stuff was on our corporate products. Zero. Anyone who went looking for superfish or the driver checker thing on a Think-branded system wasn't reading the (generally poorly written) press. Any the "only" statement you made is also entirely wrong. But don't let the facts get in the way of a good story. .
I don't think you know what my job is, but I can assure you that in this case I know far, far more about it than you do. I didn't even need all the inaccuracies in your post to know that.
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FWIW - I'm not saying mistakes weren't made, but they weren't intentional or in any way for nefarious purposes. People like a good conspiracy theory.
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Again, I don't understand how you can actually say they weren't intentional. Dell ships bloatware, you uninstall it or reformat an endpoint and you're set to install vanilla OS. Lenovo you format the PC, the garbages gets back in regardless of what you do because its embedded in the BIOS/firmware and invoked at boot. On top of that, there was a vulnerability in their delivery - I don't think that was intentional, but that's like saying "I was doing 120 mph down in my 911 turbo and a piece of my tire killed a pedestrian when it blew out." Obviously the intent wasn't to kill a pedestrian, but it happened during a negligent act. You must be in crisis PR No other distributor goes to the lengths that Lenovo did to put their crapware into the machine.
You keep mentioning "intent" - so what exactly was the intent with including Superfish!? "We want to innocently, passively, no-harm-no-foul allow this adware product to monitor your screen so that you can get spammed with ads that are relevant to you - we had the best intentions!" Um... then the whole creep ball negligent act actually opened up their entire fleet of PCs to a universally signed CA allowing Superfish to read SSL encrypted pages to put ads on it! I come from the technical world of understanding how SSL encryption works, why its important that no such thing as a universal CA exist, and the effect it can have. Both of these issues have left Lenovo as being criticized by having made "one of the most irresponsible mistakes an established tech company has ever made" by prominent software engineers in security journals. Again, sure, a mistake, like speeding down a highway and hitting someone. "Judge, I wasn't trying to kill anyone I was just trying to be a giant asshole."
Let's change topics because we won't see eye to eye on this one.
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Did you guys just watch The Internship?
Jon - you're wandering all over the place. I'm any case, nothing like that shipped on commercial PC's, and you seem to understand about 30% of the facts and circumstances on the consumer side, and buying into some of the hyperbole to boot. I'm guessing we could have a beverage discussion and you'd be more clear, but an internet forum like this isn't the place to have the conversation.
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I never said the commercial side had the specific issue. The problem is that the instance is damning. You're also assuming every enterprise purchase is commercial grade - it's not, unfortunately. We have dozens of clients who purchase non-business grade endpoints. The difference should be warranty and support, not "adware and rootkits in your firmware or not". Guess who doesn't get recommended by MSPs when they're asked for build outs by clients?
Is it Gateway?
eMachines?
Go ahead and bite. Plenty for everyone.
Maybe a Compaq?
Go ahead and bite. Plenty for everyone.
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