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Authored by wol on Feb 20, 2015 18:39:58 GMT
lwn.net/Articles/634041/Interesting article. Short summary: for a short period Lenovo laptops shipped with a self-signed root https certificate. In other words, anybody with access to the machine (including hackers and drive-by-hack websites) could do a man-in-the-middle attack and hijack any https connection - including things like bank sessions! Lenovo doesn't see anything wrong in compromising security "because customers like adverts". Cheers, Wol
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Authored by wayneborean on Feb 21, 2015 17:50:53 GMT
Yeah, right. I love ads so much that I've spent hours getting rid of adware on my wife's and kid's computers. Wayne madhatter.ca
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swmech
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Authored by swmech on Feb 24, 2015 20:28:48 GMT
And I've often wondered how companies like Lavasoft and Malwarebytes stay in business, given that people love adware and online ads so very much.
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