Post 911, the “War on Terror”, and the Patriot Act. I was young enough not to have complex political opinions, but it all stank to me.

Where does this shit even come from? I’ve never had a popup on my screen like this.

Here’s an article from closer to when I first hard about it.

Apparently this has happened more then once. I can find more articles once I’m on my desktop, but here’s one of the more recent examples.

https://ophtek.com/lenovo-laptops-shipped-with-new-malware-risk/

Impressive. I know many corps still use Leveno laptops even though they got caught putting spyware in their firmware.

Never. They’ll just try again later with different and more obtuse wording.