This is an example where proprietary software developers show that they're primarily interested in serving themselves and only secondarily serving their users; it's always like this with proprietary software (otherwise they'd allow users to control their own computing). I hope that this news will help people in general to realize that this proprietary software is problem by itself (as are other forms of informatics that put control of your information in hands of somebody else) and use free software instead. It's not an isolated event with proprietary software, it's just a sample of the practical effects of something worser. These pages (1, 2) mentions some other examples like this.
I received the news through the FSF newsletter: Tell Lenovo: respect user
freedom and prevent future Superfishes.
- [Trisquel-users] Lenovo computers and Superfish malware marioxcc . MT
