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by dabber 880 days ago
> Not that Lenovo is a bad company persay

The argument can certainly be made though. At least regarding their consumer laptop decision circa 2015 when, in addition to the quality issues, they were shipping the Superfish ad-ware which was installing a notably insecure self-signed root certificate to deliberately Man-in-the-Middle HTTPS connections so it could inject display ads. See:

- https://marcrogers.org/2015/02/19/lenovo-installs-adware-on-...

- https://blog.erratasec.com/2015/02/extracting-superfish-cert...

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I specifically said that because I DON'T want to discuss whether it's a good company or not.