Chinese PC maker Lenovo has found itself in the middle of a public relations disaster, following revelations that it sold a number of notebook computers with pre-installed software that hijacks users’ browser sessions to inject customized advertisements and seriously degrades the security of encrypted connections.
No matter what else they may do, everyone knows that Apple would never pull shit like this.
Google would LOVE to be able to inject customized F-ing advertisements into users’ browser sessions. Oh wait. They already do that. In search results too. They don’t call it “hijacking,” but they should.
Carrier IQ…
The worst part:
“Anyone with the encryption password for the certificate — which was easily found by Robert Graham of Errata Security — can extract the private key and perform a man in the middle attack to intercept the communications of any computer with the certificate installed, or to craft legitimate-seeming fake phishing websites.”
Does anyone know if that was Superfish’s doing or Lenovo’s? More importantly, how many people figured this out before it was reported in the media?
Why should they call it hijacking?
Search results from Google are … a Google product that they can manipulate as they wish.
I’ve never seen a Google ad in my “browser sessions” that wasn’t … in the web content itself, from the source.
Yeah! Google is totally evil for inserting ads into the search results that you get from Google.
Wait, what?
Trust is in rare supply, given PC-makers like Lenovo and SIM-card-encryption-key thieves like the NSA.
Some time ago (prob 10 years), my former company bought a cline a Lenovo laptop. We should have reformatted and re-imaged with a barebones W7 (or XP) OS … but we did not – and the person is charge was dragging his feet – so the client left… why do PEE CEEs suck so much???
I know there are good PCs. I understand some people actually assemble their own PC for standard parts, yet this is like 1906 for automobiles – or worse!
yes, but Binkieland is much, much worse.
Lost. For. Words.