[Cryptography] Lenovo laptops with preloaded adware and an evil CA
Tom Mitchell
mitch at niftyegg.com
Fri Feb 20 19:06:35 EST 2015
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Stephan Neuhaus <stephan.neuhaus at zhaw.ch>
wrote:
> 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:
>
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
What is the Superfish IP set of address to block, by name and by number?
I believe they need to be mapped to 127.0.0.1 and/or firewalled.
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T o m M i t c h e l l
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