Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion
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@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
Allegedly.
Don't downplay known attacks. Lenovo has been caught red handed, multiple times. There is no comparable business entity. No one else has been caught in the same way, no one. It's totally unacceptable to act like it didn't happen. Doing so is directly calling us liars (we aren't reporting news, I'm one of the people that they harvested.) If you intend to do so, be up front and just say you think I'm a liar, don't pretend that it is alleged. If you personally like Lenovo enough that you are willing to overlook their actions, that's fine, but that's different than something being alleged - that's a lack of concern over the type of event as it pertains to you.
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@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
I'm one of the people that they harvested.
What data did they harvest from you?
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@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
I'm one of the people that they harvested.
What data did they harvest from you?
Everything. Literally everything.
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@travisdh1 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
I'm one of the people that they harvested.
What data did they harvest from you?
Everything. Literally everything.
Yeah literally any website used on a Lenovo product had everything harvested, bank account - harvested, health information - harvested - porn habits - harvested.
Nothing was excluded.
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@DustinB3403 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@travisdh1 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
I'm one of the people that they harvested.
What data did they harvest from you?
Everything. Literally everything.
Yeah literally any website used on a Lenovo product has everything harvested, bank account - harvested, health information - harvested - porn habits - harvested.
Nothing is excluded.
ftfy, still happening, so not past tense.
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@travisdh1 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
I'm one of the people that they harvested.
What data did they harvest from you?
Everything. Literally everything.
I was just curious how he knows what was harvested. Did he capture packets being sent to them, was it all data? I'd like to see the results he's has showing all of his data was going there.
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@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@travisdh1 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
I'm one of the people that they harvested.
What data did they harvest from you?
Everything. Literally everything.
I was just curious how he knows what was harvested. Did he capture packets being sent to them, was it all data? I'd like to see the results he's has showing all of his data was going there.
Fucking seriously? FFS, this is publicly known information.
It was bad that Lenovo did it. It was worse that they covered it up.
Lenovo has lied and covered it up and repeatedly done this.Superfish related:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/
https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/further-evidence-lenovo-breaking-https-security-its-laptopsOh look. they did things AFTER superfish...
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/security-failings-demonstrate-avoid-lenovo/ -
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
I'm one of the people that they harvested.
What data did they harvest from you?
Are you kidding? They took over the network connection. All of it, all traffic was controlled by them.
This is SO common knowledge. What world are you living in? You can't be in IT and not be aware of who the malicious players are and what happens in the industry. This is literally the biggest data breach / hacking scenario in the history of IT. There is nothing that has ever compared to it, no other vendor or agent or government has ever been caught on this scale. Everything else has been speculation, but Lenovo was caught as both the malicious actor and the distributor of the hacks repeatedly.
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@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@travisdh1 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
I'm one of the people that they harvested.
What data did they harvest from you?
Everything. Literally everything.
I was just curious how he knows what was harvested. Did he capture packets being sent to them, was it all data? I'd like to see the results he's has showing all of his data was going there.
It's a shim, a man in the middle attack. They could chose what to send after the fact, after they had already gotten access to anything on the network.
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@JaredBusch said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@travisdh1 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
I'm one of the people that they harvested.
What data did they harvest from you?
Everything. Literally everything.
I was just curious how he knows what was harvested. Did he capture packets being sent to them, was it all data? I'd like to see the results he's has showing all of his data was going there.
Fucking seriously? FFS, this is publicly known information.
It was bad that Lenovo did it. It was worse that they covered it up.
Lenovo has lied and covered it up and repeatedly done this.Superfish related:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/
https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/further-evidence-lenovo-breaking-https-security-its-laptopsOh look. they did things AFTER superfish...
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/security-failings-demonstrate-avoid-lenovo/It doesn't appear to me that any of you have read those articles.
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@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@JaredBusch said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@travisdh1 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
I'm one of the people that they harvested.
What data did they harvest from you?
Everything. Literally everything.
I was just curious how he knows what was harvested. Did he capture packets being sent to them, was it all data? I'd like to see the results he's has showing all of his data was going there.
Fucking seriously? FFS, this is publicly known information.
It was bad that Lenovo did it. It was worse that they covered it up.
Lenovo has lied and covered it up and repeatedly done this.Superfish related:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/
https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/further-evidence-lenovo-breaking-https-security-its-laptopsOh look. they did things AFTER superfish...
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/security-failings-demonstrate-avoid-lenovo/It doesn't appear to me that any of you have read those articles.
Are you being intentionally stupid?
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@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@JaredBusch said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@travisdh1 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
I'm one of the people that they harvested.
What data did they harvest from you?
Everything. Literally everything.
I was just curious how he knows what was harvested. Did he capture packets being sent to them, was it all data? I'd like to see the results he's has showing all of his data was going there.
Fucking seriously? FFS, this is publicly known information.
It was bad that Lenovo did it. It was worse that they covered it up.
Lenovo has lied and covered it up and repeatedly done this.Superfish related:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/
https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/further-evidence-lenovo-breaking-https-security-its-laptopsOh look. they did things AFTER superfish...
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/security-failings-demonstrate-avoid-lenovo/It doesn't appear to me that any of you have read those articles.
You are simply being obtuse at this point and are trolling. At least try and make it entertaining when you troll.
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@DustinB3403 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@JaredBusch said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@travisdh1 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
I'm one of the people that they harvested.
What data did they harvest from you?
Everything. Literally everything.
I was just curious how he knows what was harvested. Did he capture packets being sent to them, was it all data? I'd like to see the results he's has showing all of his data was going there.
Fucking seriously? FFS, this is publicly known information.
It was bad that Lenovo did it. It was worse that they covered it up.
Lenovo has lied and covered it up and repeatedly done this.Superfish related:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/
https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/further-evidence-lenovo-breaking-https-security-its-laptopsOh look. they did things AFTER superfish...
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/security-failings-demonstrate-avoid-lenovo/It doesn't appear to me that any of you have read those articles.
You are simply being obtuse at this point and are trolling. At least try and make it entertaining when you troll.
It's okay to take off your tin foil hats.
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@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@DustinB3403 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@JaredBusch said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@travisdh1 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
I'm one of the people that they harvested.
What data did they harvest from you?
Everything. Literally everything.
I was just curious how he knows what was harvested. Did he capture packets being sent to them, was it all data? I'd like to see the results he's has showing all of his data was going there.
Fucking seriously? FFS, this is publicly known information.
It was bad that Lenovo did it. It was worse that they covered it up.
Lenovo has lied and covered it up and repeatedly done this.Superfish related:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/
https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/further-evidence-lenovo-breaking-https-security-its-laptopsOh look. they did things AFTER superfish...
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/security-failings-demonstrate-avoid-lenovo/It doesn't appear to me that any of you have read those articles.
You are simply being obtuse at this point and are trolling. At least try and make it entertaining when you troll.
It's okay to take off your tin foil hats.
So you ARE saying that I'm lying. Just to be clear.
It's like having had your bank broken into, the crooks already cracked the safe, the cops show up and tell the bank owners to "stop being crazy, those guys that just broke into the safe are innocent" and leaving.
Tin foil hat doesn't really apply to a situation like this. Tin foil hat is a conspiracy reference. If you know what a conspiracy is, you'd be clear that it's not a reference that ever applies to either 1) a single entity or 2) a normal self serving business process.
Example... a shop lifter taking candy from a corner store. Under no circumstances, can it happening or someone fearing that it happened or might happen be connected to a conspiracy. Conspiring is the act of people acting together. Something, obviously, a lone actor cannot do.
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@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@DustinB3403 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@JaredBusch said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@travisdh1 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
I'm one of the people that they harvested.
What data did they harvest from you?
Everything. Literally everything.
I was just curious how he knows what was harvested. Did he capture packets being sent to them, was it all data? I'd like to see the results he's has showing all of his data was going there.
Fucking seriously? FFS, this is publicly known information.
It was bad that Lenovo did it. It was worse that they covered it up.
Lenovo has lied and covered it up and repeatedly done this.Superfish related:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/
https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/further-evidence-lenovo-breaking-https-security-its-laptopsOh look. they did things AFTER superfish...
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/security-failings-demonstrate-avoid-lenovo/It doesn't appear to me that any of you have read those articles.
You are simply being obtuse at this point and are trolling. At least try and make it entertaining when you troll.
It's okay to take off your tin foil hats.
So you ARE saying that I'm lying. Just to be clear.
It's like having had your bank broken into, the crooks already cracked the safe, the cops show up and tell the bank owners to "stop being crazy, those guys that just broke into the safe are innocent" and leaving.
Tin foil hat doesn't really apply to a situation like this. Tin foil hat is a conspiracy reference. If you know what a conspiracy is, you'd be clear that it's not a reference that ever applies to either 1) a single entity or 2) a normal self serving business process.
Example... a shop lifter taking candy from a corner store. Under no circumstances, can it happening or someone fearing that it happened or might happen be connected to a conspiracy. Conspiring is the act of people acting together. Something, obviously, a lone actor cannot do.
... You all make it as such. Adware using a stupid method to insert ads into your web pages, somehow translates to OH NOES! Lenovo is stealing all my data!!! Lenovo is spying! China is spying through Lenovo! Quick, put on your tin foil hats!
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@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
China is spying through Lenovo!
You just totally made that up to make this sound ridiculous. No one but you suggested anything of the sort.
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@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
You all make it as such.
Because that is what it is. Period. End of story. Injecting a man in the middle attack to hijack data (and yes, it breaks web sites because they are modifying it, too) is data theft, regardless of if they have yet shipped it off or not. It's a crime, it is theft. This is black and white, no possible excuse territory.
Pretending that breaking into someone's encrypted data isn't a crime or theft is ridiculous. Calling something a conspiracy to try to downplay data theft is incredible.
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If you think that criminal activity, theft (and there was other theft beyond this, and there were people paid to do what you were doing on other communities to post things to downplay physical theft and other scams), hijacked functionality are "trivial" matters, that's fine. But this is victim shaming and is not okay. It's not ethically okay, and it is certainly not okay in this community.
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@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
If you think that criminal activity, theft (and there was other theft beyond this, and there were people paid to do what you were doing on other communities to post things to downplay physical theft and other scams), hijacked functionality are "trivial" matters, that's fine. But this is victim shaming and is not okay. It's not ethically okay, and it is certainly not okay in this community.
I'm certainly not shaming anyone, and certainly not calling anyone a liar. That's a pretty far-fetched accusation and uncalled for.
I do not think it's to the extent many make it out to be. All of your data is not being pirated by Lenovo. That is the idea that seems to be going around that I can't agree with, and therefore can't share the same opinions.
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@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:
I'm one of the people that they harvested.
What data did they harvest from you?
"However, the software blocked the browsers from notifying or warning the user about not visiting the malicious websites the links of which the pre-installed adware posted. The adware could steal valuable information such as Social Security Number, private credentials, and similar sensitive data. This, claims the FTC, was a clear proof of the way Lenovo compromised the privacy of consumers.
The preloaded software “could access consumers’ sensitive information without adequate notice or consent to its use. This conduct is even more serious because the software compromised online security protections that consumers rely on,” stated Maureen Ohlhausen, the acting chairman of FTC. The FTC also noted that the data stolen by VisualDiscovery was not received by or sent to Superfish, the Palo Alto, California-based firm."
https://www.hackread.com/lenovo-to-pay-millions-for-secretly-installing-adware-in-750000-laptops/
Calling software the hijacks data and makes it available to third party "adware" because it "could also show ads" is a form of social engineering. Yes, it is also adware, but primarily it is a breach of security, that it shows ads as well is just a bit of misdirection to make it easier to confuse people from the actual problem.
