[jeswin]

Lenovo's apology is the perfect example of a non-apology; they are pretending that the outrage is about an inadvertent software vulnerability and not about MITMing/snooping on their customers.

From the CTO's "Open Letter": http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1932

"This software frustrated some users without adding value to the experience so we were in the process of removing it from our preloads. Then, we saw published reports about a security vulnerability created by this software and have taken immediate action to remove it. Clearly this issue has caused concern among our customers, partners and those who care about Lenovo, our industry and technology in general. For this, I would like to again apologize."

I'd rate this as the worst consumer betrayal I have ever seen. If people did this kind of thing, they'd be in prison.

[bhayden]

If people went to prison for making apps that collect user information with the only consent being a sentence in page 30 out of 50 in the terms of use, pretty much all big app developers would be felons.