On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 09:17:41AM -0500, m...@jeremiahford.com wrote: > In browsing through misc@ I am seeing many openbsd users running > obsd on thinkpads. I had heard quite a bit of rhetoric claiming that > Lenovo has been building backdoors into their products, yet I could > never find evidence confirming or disproving these claims. Erring on > the side of caution, I had decided to simply not use Lenovo. > > Years later, I am now revisiting this after seeing that openbsd > users & devs seem comfortable using Lenovo. > > My question is; Does anyone have any insight into these claims, > whether it be proving or disproving?
There are two kinds of this attacks - hardware or software. If it is hardware then you are out of luck anyway, if it is software one (like latest Lenovo MitM backdoor) then if you would install your OS (OpenBSD) yourself you have solved the problem. j.
