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CAUGHT: Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into Windows laptops – by hiding it in the BIOS

Graham Cobb Silver badge

Microsoft are the real problem here

Why on earth didn't Microsoft require the "platform" vendors to incorporate a BIOS switch to control use of this feature? Of course, that removes the "anti-theft" justification but it allows any other legitimate use to still work. Users who want/need the Lenovo stuff will leave the feature enabled, people who want all trace of Lenovo software removed will turn it off.

The question in my mind is how many other similar features are lurking, undocumented for use by spy agencies. It seems quite likely to me that there is a duplicate capability to this one for loading another boot-time program, which even the manufacturers don't know about!

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