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I only hope it doesnt push them even more to destroying thinkpad brand although there are some encouraging signs as shown in the release thinkpad p info

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In my eyes, they've already destroyed their brand by selling Thinkpads with BIOS's which automatically compromise clean Windows installs by overwriting files at boot time. That and the fact they sold Thinkpads containing software which compromised all HTTPS traffic (Superfish).

Speaking as somebody who's current laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad and who has had three other Thinkpads in the past: This will be my last.

Aren't both of those only on non-thinkpad branded machines?

I know Superfish was not included on Thinkpads. I am not sure about this latest breach. But that's not terribly important; the company showed that it can't be trusted. If they're so eager to sell out some of their customers, what's to stop them from going a step further in the future?

Much as I love Thinkpads, the only reasonable stance from here on out is to presume that every Lenovo computer is compromised by default.

That was not on thinkpads.

I didn't realise that. Ultimately makes no difference though. They've proven they can't be trusted to produce computers which are safe to use.

Yes, I have a long history of buying Lenovo ... but those Dell machines are looking way more attractive after this latest fiasco.

They've been listening with the keyboard backpedaling and getting to their fans with the vintage thing.

As long as they keep and listen to their engineering force ThinkPads will be fine, the market isn't huge, but the competition is below I believe.

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