← Back to context Comment by vsgherzi 7 months ago Could you expand on the firmware stuff? Do they have bad practices on the firmware? 2 comments vsgherzi Reply SyneRyder 7 months ago Not sure If this is what they're referring to, but 10 years ago Lenovo shipped low-end laptops with pre-installed adware called Superfish that also compromised the HTTPS certificate chain:https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2015/02/20/lenovo-su...Pretty terrible, but it was never on the high-end laptops, and plenty of HN folks are running Lenovo ThinkPads anyway. fsflover 7 months ago Yes, https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150812/11395231925/lenov...
SyneRyder 7 months ago Not sure If this is what they're referring to, but 10 years ago Lenovo shipped low-end laptops with pre-installed adware called Superfish that also compromised the HTTPS certificate chain:https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2015/02/20/lenovo-su...Pretty terrible, but it was never on the high-end laptops, and plenty of HN folks are running Lenovo ThinkPads anyway.
Not sure If this is what they're referring to, but 10 years ago Lenovo shipped low-end laptops with pre-installed adware called Superfish that also compromised the HTTPS certificate chain:
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2015/02/20/lenovo-su...
Pretty terrible, but it was never on the high-end laptops, and plenty of HN folks are running Lenovo ThinkPads anyway.
Yes, https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150812/11395231925/lenov...