▲ 182 ▼ Lenovo G02 retro handheld allegedly comes preloaded with thousands of copyrighted games, including Nintendo ROMs (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 3 months ago by Grapho@lemmy.ml to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world 32 comments fedilink hide all child comments Based
[–] KingKong33@lemmy.ml 41 points 3 months ago (7 children) Good. Fuck Nintendo. permalink fedilink source hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (2 children) Fuck them both. Lenovo is the company that keeps shipping their laptops with spyware in the firmware. https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/millions-of-lenovo-laptops-contain-firmware-level-vulnerabilities permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 child) So being a Lenovo owner, I read through this article from 2022, and it doesn't mention anything about spyware being embedded in the UEFI. It's about a security vulnerability that was patched pretty much right away that could have given someone access to install malware, but besides the fuckup where the drivers from manufacturing were still included, there's nothing about Lenovo hiding spyware in their firmware. Anything more recent? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago The Superfish malware from 2015 was the one I was actually thinking of, but I couldn't find it quickly because the more recent examples were flooding the search results. Here's a few more examples of Lenovo thinking they still own the laptop you paid for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_incidents permalink fedilink source parent [–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 point 3 months ago (3 children) If Mario was real he would stomp them like he stomps goombas. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago Yo-ah ho-ah its ah mia, Mario maia mayties! permalink fedilink source parent [–] KingKong33@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 months ago If we all concentrate hard enough, we can manifest tulpa Mario and make this a reality. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (2 children) Fuck them both. Lenovo is the company that keeps shipping their laptops with spyware in the firmware. https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/millions-of-lenovo-laptops-contain-firmware-level-vulnerabilities permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 child) So being a Lenovo owner, I read through this article from 2022, and it doesn't mention anything about spyware being embedded in the UEFI. It's about a security vulnerability that was patched pretty much right away that could have given someone access to install malware, but besides the fuckup where the drivers from manufacturing were still included, there's nothing about Lenovo hiding spyware in their firmware. Anything more recent? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago The Superfish malware from 2015 was the one I was actually thinking of, but I couldn't find it quickly because the more recent examples were flooding the search results. Here's a few more examples of Lenovo thinking they still own the laptop you paid for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_incidents permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 child) So being a Lenovo owner, I read through this article from 2022, and it doesn't mention anything about spyware being embedded in the UEFI. It's about a security vulnerability that was patched pretty much right away that could have given someone access to install malware, but besides the fuckup where the drivers from manufacturing were still included, there's nothing about Lenovo hiding spyware in their firmware. Anything more recent? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago The Superfish malware from 2015 was the one I was actually thinking of, but I couldn't find it quickly because the more recent examples were flooding the search results. Here's a few more examples of Lenovo thinking they still own the laptop you paid for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_incidents permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago The Superfish malware from 2015 was the one I was actually thinking of, but I couldn't find it quickly because the more recent examples were flooding the search results. Here's a few more examples of Lenovo thinking they still own the laptop you paid for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_incidents permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 point 3 months ago (3 children) If Mario was real he would stomp them like he stomps goombas. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago Yo-ah ho-ah its ah mia, Mario maia mayties! permalink fedilink source parent [–] KingKong33@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 months ago If we all concentrate hard enough, we can manifest tulpa Mario and make this a reality. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago Yo-ah ho-ah its ah mia, Mario maia mayties! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago Yo-ah ho-ah its ah mia, Mario maia mayties! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] KingKong33@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 months ago If we all concentrate hard enough, we can manifest tulpa Mario and make this a reality. permalink fedilink source parent