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ekianjo
on Feb 19, 2015
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Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers
So what? At least with the software part you remove a large portion of the risks. It's better to go half way than doing nothing about it, and hardware tampering for a company could be more risky since they would have to do mass recall if discovered.
Argorak
on Feb 20, 2015
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I'm talking Firmware-tampering, which is rather risk-free and firmware patches are not unusual.
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