by moffkalast 16 hours ago
> Lenovo (/ləˈnoʊvoʊ/ lə-NOH-voh, Chinese: 联想; pinyin: Liánxiǎng), is a Hong Kong–based Chinese-American[11] multinational corporation
> Lenovo originated as an offshoot of a state-owned research institute.[14] Then known as Legend and distributing foreign IT products, co-founder Liu Chuanzhi incorporated[2] Legend in Hong Kong in an attempt to raise capital and was successfully permitted to build computers in China
Ok holy fuck, how did they stop that from being common knowledge? Nobody I know would ever think of Lenovo as nothing but another US company.
I guess you're too young to remember Lenovo buying IBM's PC business and folks complaining about security since they were Chinese?
It was common knowledge in my circles back at the time of the acquisition, but that's been 20+ years ago now. I try to bring attention to it whenever I'm asked about using Lenovo gear.
I’m pretty sure OP is being sarcastic.
The companies I have worked for in the past have always sworn by Thinkpads.
I don’t care who owns them Thinkpads are amazing.
I can only supply you with facts. Trust could be an emotional word after all.
Using a device manufactured by an adversary-owned entity defeats the sole purpose of MDM. Your data isn't safe within an OS compiled by a Chinese company that "originated as an offshoot of a state-owned research institute." [1] There are so many layers where a backdoor could be hidden within the stack.
I don't think Big Techs or any companies that take data security seriously would accept such a device.
I remember it being a pretty big deal when IBM spun off thinkpads to Lenovo, and then again when they were caught installing malware in the EFI on some of the entry level models.
I've avoided them since despite them being the favored laptop of most corporate and Linux users.