I certainly remember when lenovo pushed a keyboard firmware update so bad that it physically damaged a chip on thousands of legion laptops and then refused to own up to it. Fuckers. Never again.
Comment on Thinkpad for the win
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ah, remember the time that Lenovo shipped spyware in the UEFI of Thinkpads?
spacesatan@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
jj4211@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Some context…
For one, it wasn’t spyware, it was UEFI that, if a user had admin/root privilege, they could modify the firmware despite signinging procedures that should have prevented that. There was no spyware, there was no root kit, there was a vulnerability.
For another:
Technically it never touched the ThinkPads. Despite some areas where things blur, ThinkPad is still relatively independent of the rest of the product line. While I may not think Lenovo is trying to actively spy on their consumer brands, they do screw up enough that I wouldn’t want to touch them (not just security, they cut too many corners in general).