[cryptome] Re: Buying a A New Laptop?

  • From: John Young <jya@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 11:06:39 -0400

Cybersecurity warnings recall days of nuclear armageddon when
backyard shelters were the fashion. Which recalled medieval warnings
of 4 horsemen which drove fearful into slaving on cathedrals. Which
recalled ancient shamans of diverse terrors to building armies of
death and destruction to sit in camps roaring drunk and bonding
with mates until Samson demolished the temples. Which foretold
what now emanates from Joan d'Arc Manning and Knight Templar
Snowden and their legions of Machiavellis and court suppliers the
dire whisperings of electromagnetic imaginations infecting our
personal biblical gadgets. Just when we had come to forgive the
Guilty Inventors of the A-Bomb, along comes malware procreating
in the rampant imaginations of cybersecurity shamans declaring
war for the Internet, their marketing strategy to get inside our
defenses by the usual means of attacking us and blaming others.
We buy that familiar indoctrination, a perdurable intoxication.


At 10:12 AM 3/15/2015, you wrote:

This thing below is also Chinese, but 100% free.Â
<http://www.lemote.com/en/products/Notebook/2010/0310/112.html>http://www.lemote.com/en/products/Notebook/2010/0310/112.html
2015-03-15 13:42 GMT+01:00 Douglas Rankine <<mailto:douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx>douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx>: 

Dear Colleagues,
As you know, I have had two laptops go down the pan in the last week or so, so I am looking around the market at new and second hand ones. I am also looking for a new one for me missus as she has a big birthday coming up.   My lad recommended a Lenovo, a 13” job, with a touch screen and a physical keyboard, which would be ideal for her...at the right price.   I had a look, 

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See url: <http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/laptops-netbooks/laptops/laptops/lenovo-yoga-3-11-6-2-in-1-silver-10108711-pdt.htm>http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/laptops-netbooks/laptops/laptops/lenovo-yoga-3-11-6-2-in-1-silver-10108711-pdt.htm 

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but as I was checking it out, I discovered that there are supposed to be some security concerns. For instance there is a story that our most respected security and intelligence services, don’t recommend them because of hardware and software “back doors” being inserted in them so that the Chinese government can keep tabs on the users...(they are made in China by a Chinese Company owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, apparently) I don’t know how true this is and whether the NSA would prefer us westerners to purchase US ones with “western” back doors in them...or whether it is just a rumour. 

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See url: <http://www.geek.com/chips/spy-agencies-shun-lenovo-finding-backdoors-built-into-the-hardware-1563801/>http://www.geek.com/chips/spy-agencies-shun-lenovo-finding-backdoors-built-into-the-hardware-1563801/ 

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I already have a Samsung smart tv which is supposed to have spyware on it. I didn’t find out until after I bought it and I don’t know if it has...or if it has, how to get rid of it. Apparently, “anonymous” user information is being  collected for marketing purposes, and is completely harmless... J. I didn’t buy a tv to be spied on without my permission, but there you are, such is the honesty and integrity of democratic, liberal capitalism. We even have to purchase our spyware these days....it is becoming mandatory...like a television license. 

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So, anyone got any ideas on how I should proceed, any recommendations, will be most welcome... J. 

ATB

Dougie.

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