[ale] Way to go Lenovo (not)

[James Earl Smith]

Oh joy I have one of these lemons. What should I do with it :-(

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
wrote:

> Yes, I do recall the sale.  Here at work we now only have Dell and HP
> (plus Sun and Apple, too.) though I think there are some areas where
> Lenovo-as-Thinkpad still shows up.
>
> On 2015-02-19 11:02, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > Recall that Lenovo made all Thinkpads for IBM for years.
> >
> > Hmm. Dell probably lobbied to approve the sale to Lenovo as Dell picked
> up the Federal laptop sales.
> >
> > On February 19, 2015 1:58:17 PM EST, Alex Carver <
> agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
> >> I do wonder if there's a slightly darker purpose for the installation
> >> considering Lenovo is in China.
> >>
> >> On 2015-02-19 09:42, Jim Kinney wrote:
> >>> Another good reason to NEVER USE THE INSTALLED OS.
> >>>
> >>> ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS wipe the drive and install your own OS from
> >> known
> >>> good media.
> >>>
> >>> But, hey! It's for windoze (l)users so it must not be a critical
> >>> machine.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 09:20 -0800, Alex Carver wrote:
> >>>> On 2015-02-19 09:17, Alex Carver wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>
> http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/
> >>>>
> >>>> And once you read that article, read their corporate statement.
> >>>> http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1929
>
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