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Connecting an LG Monitor to a Windows PC Trigger the Silent, Unprompted Installation of Adware (consumerrights.wiki)
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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Things started going downhill when Lenovo wasn't fined into oblivion in the 2010s for putting malicious spyware on the laptops they sold their customers. And I mean actual literal spyware, as in "installs a root certificate and decrypts and reads all your 'secure' internet traffic, ostensibly so it can place random ads in it". While also leaving gaping holes for attackers to use, of course, but letting a random program written by someone with ties to Israeli intelligence install backdoors throughout their customer base earned Lenova slightly more money so it's all good!

And that wasn't even the first or last time Lenovo have done something like that. They just... got a free pass, and this type of thing gradually became the norm. It's infuriating.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

The frustrating thing about that is how they didn't even slow down with their bullshit after that scandal, and some of the most hated DRM in recent history have a direct lineage from Sony:

  • SecuROM, a widely hated DRM that limited how many times you could install a game, required online check-ins or it'd lock you out of playing, and blocked common IT tools while running, was also developed by Sony.
  • Denuvo, which obfuscates and encrypts the game executable after scattering DRM checks throughout, adding extra CPU overhead and lowering game performance, was later produced by the same (former, now independent) SecuROM team.
[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I was going to post this if nobody else did. At least Sony was forced to acknowledge the issue and issue a patch. But then the patch was such a bad bodge (it didn’t even remove the rootkit, and introduced more vulnerabilities) that the punishment wasn’t anywhere near enough.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Does Lenovo do this on Linux OS'? Cause I only saw the Lenovo crapware on Windows 10/11 before I switched to Fedora.