[Cryptography] Lenovo laptops with preloaded adware and an evil CA

Stephan Neuhaus stephan.neuhaus at zhaw.ch
Fri Feb 20 04:01:07 EST 2015


On 2015-02-20 02:37, William Muriithi wrote:
> Crazy
>
> Really, how can Lenovo fall for this?

I think the chain of events went somewhat like this:

They (a) thought they really, really needed a way to increase their 
revenue, therefore (b) outsourced the whole thing to another company 
(because building things in-house is costly, don't you know?), (c) had 
neither the time nor the inclination to do a proper audit, and therefore 
(d) probably didn't even know about the extent to which Superfish 
compromised their customers' laptops.

Fun,

Stephan


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