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submitted 4 months ago by bi_tux@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

ofc I imediatly upgraded it from winxp to gnu/linux

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[-] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They had a Chinese back door in the firmware. Don’t know if that’s still the case. https://www.techworm.net/2015/08/lenovo-pcs-and-laptops-seem-to-have-a-bios-level-backdoor.html They’ve had several major (intentional) security flaws over the years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo They had a modified UEFI that allows insecure execution of EXEs. The Lenovo laptops given to US military in Iraq had keyloggers that sent all inputs back to China.

[-] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[-] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

In the case of the soldiers in Iraq, China had installed an independent chip specifically for keylogging. I don’t know if replacing the boot loader would even solve that.

[-] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

Oh I read it was a backdoored BIOS.

Yeah libreboot would probably not help much then.

[-] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

There was more than one incident. There’s a whole list of incidents.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago
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