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My boss gifted me an old thinkpad x31
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ofc I imediatly upgraded it from winxp to gnu/linux
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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.
Libreboot ftw
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.
Oh I read it was a backdoored BIOS.
Yeah libreboot would probably not help much then.
There was more than one incident. There’s a whole list of incidents.
coreboot ftw