My boss gifted me an old thinkpad x31

https://lemmy.world/post/18248460

My boss gifted me an old thinkpad x31 - Lemmy.World

ofc I imediatly upgraded it from winxp to gnu/linux

Very cool. I love those IBM Thinkpads. Fuck lenovo
the older lenovo models aren’t bad, but the shit they pump out recently is well, shit
They had a Chinese back door in the firmware. Don’t know if that’s still the case. techworm.net/…/lenovo-pcs-and-laptops-seem-to-hav… They’ve had several major (intentional) security flaws over the years. The rest of their Windows included software is cancer.
Lenovo PCs and Laptops seem to have a BIOS level backdoor

Lenovo PCs and Laptops seems to have hidden a rootkit in their BIOS

TechWorm
Liberboot 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.