On 4/08/2015 5:42 PM, Brian May wrote:
On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 at 21:05 Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au <mailto:andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au>> wrote:
True about IBM, but Lenovo screwed themselves with Superfish ... so I've got to rule them out as a bad player, very bad player.
My understanding is that the Lenovo Superfish issue only applied to their consumer level laptops. The Thinkpad laptops were not affected.
It's against the "vibe" at the very least. If they were happy to do that on some machines, then every machine should be suspect.
I think any other manufacturer could be just as bad. It was Lenovo that was caught out.
They were caught out, but with how low level some things can go; well, there is no guarantee that we cannot trust them to behave properly at the firmware level. You screw up that bad and you don't deserve to get a second chance. And it was a mighty big screw up indeed. A.