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sascha_sl
1439 days ago
To be fair, Microsoft are the ones that made this "rootkit feature", Lenovo just used it.
Modern Windows instead delivers OEM payloads of various qualities over Windows Update.
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formerly_proven
1439 days ago
Windows Update is a delivery platform not just for OEM software, but also for component manufacturer software on self-built machines. Naturally, some of that software is shady as fuck.
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sascha_sl
1439 days ago
Correct. It also doesn't seem too hard to fraudulently claim a device ID that nobody else has claimed.
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