Security Issue for Lenovo Laptops

AsheGuy wrote:

Exactly. We all enjoy many "free" benefits from the Internet but there is no free lunch.

The Internet is (in addition to its many benefits) one big marketing tool and those that don't realize this are naive. The best we can do is learn to carefully use it.

Lenovo used very poor judgement in their version of spying on us and I think it was particularly insidious. But to think that turning to other companies will avoid corporations that pad their quarterly earnings statements by spying on us is wishful thinking.

Large companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Lenovo, etc, etc, are very sensitive to maintaining their reputation. Those that don't do not remain successful. We will see how Lenovo fares. But they have managed to thrive where IBM failed in the PC marketplace so I would not count them out.

There is a big difference between collecting your information for advertising and breaking your security. Lenovo, and other companies whose products use the Komodia technology and now Comodo have broken their users' security and unnecessarily put them at risk. Even if you know you're being sold as the product to the companies providing products & services for free, I don't think anyone expects to have their systems made insecure in this way.