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I really hope there's a class action over this. Their software breaking your hardware isn't a failure of the device and should be a recall instead of a warranty repair.
Lenovo has been absolute trash for a while now. They took the ThinkPad brand and destroyed any reputation it may have had, I'm not surprised by this at all.
What's left? I'm still rocking the same thinkpad since 2015 but it's really struggling these days (almost time for Linux)
Remember when Lenovo pre-installed spyware on every laptop for years? Dell did the same thing. These “tech” companies are actively detrimental to technology as a concept.
To Dell, Lenovo, HP, any sign of technological progress is taken as an opportunity to cheat and steal.
Lets not forget that in doing so, a self-signed root HTTPS cert was put into the windows store creating a man in the middle for ALL https connections.
When a user visits a web site, the software intercepted the connection, created a fake cert on the fly for that domain and signed itself with a private key.
WORSE! The private key was the same across ALL laptops and extracting the keys were trivial, so an attacker could own them all.
Lenovo: go fuck yourself.
You never know, they might step up. Reports like these in early stages are tough, because the one individual reddit user who was given a quote could have reported the issue before Lenovo can determine if it really is thr BIOS update.
My guess is, in two weeks or so they make good for affected users.
Sure, they might. And everyone will forget about it again.
But they tried to get away with this bullshit, and that defines who they are, not what they back down to.
While this a likely scenario, it's also unproven. The rep that one person contacted may have had no idea what was going on.