опять Lenovo
сделало это. Новое шпионское ПО. На этот раз в ThinkPad.
http://boingboing.net/2015/09/22/yet-another-pre-installed-spyw.html
Чем сейчас Столлман то пользуется?
A factory refurbished Thinkpad shipped with Windows 7 and a scheduler app that ran once a day, collecting usage data about what you do with your computer and exfiltrating it to an analytics company.
The fact that this was taking place was buried deep in the user «agreement» that came with the machine.
This is the third preloaded spyware scandal to hit Lenovo this year: first it was caught installing Superfish, which grossly compromised user security by installing a man-in-the-middle certificate into the operating system; then it got caught loading immortal, self-reinstalling crapware into part of the BIOS reserved for custom drivers.
This latest scandal is particularly noteworthy because it impinges on Thinkpads, the rock-solid laptop brand the company acquired from IBM.
As I've noted before, I'm a Lenovo Thinkpad user and none of this affects me because I throw away the hard drives that come with my laptops and install Ubuntu GNU/Linux on new SSD hard-drives. But this kind of terrible behavior speaks to a serious deficit in the company's management and calls into question the whole firm's strategy and attitude toward its customers.
The 21st century quip has it that if you're not paying for the product, you're the product. In the case of Lenovo machines this year, it seems that even if you are paying for the product, you're still the product.