> The relationship with Superfish is not financially significant; our goal was to enhance the experience for users.
Right. You loaded adware onto users' computers, not for financial gain, but to enhance the experience for them.
"We will not preload *this* software in the future."
"We will not preload *such* software in the future."
[Superfish technology sends your data to a third party ad server. We then use this data to create behavioral profiles on you, we process this data, and we monitor it. Finally we record all this data in our backups for up to 10 years.]
is consistent with:
To be clear, Superfish technology is purely based on contextual/image and not behavioral. It does not profile nor monitor user behavior. It does not record user information. It does not know who the user is.
edit: clarified.
Pretty egregious misrepresentation from Lenovo if that's true.
> The relationship with Superfish is not financially significant;
Again, with my tinfoil hat on, I believe this. I believe that either Israeli (check out Superfish's background and connections) or Chinese governmental groups have forced Lenovo into loading this awful malware onto its machines.
> our goal was to enhance the experience for users.
Not their goal in loading adware, but their goal in general. They are drawing a line (or semicolon) between what they wanted to do, and what the dark and mysterious forces behind Superfish forced them to do.
Again, tinfoil hat. This is all very conspiracy theory-ish.