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9 years ago this month I discovered the Lenovo superfish virus and worked with Nicole Perlroth at the New York Times to get the story out. 

AMA.

Tradfi coder by day, hacker by night. Doesn’t know night from day. Freelance scribe. Dad cook. Dog butler.  Happy Grandpa. Draws badly.

Was it worth it to go through the entire process of disclosing?

weird internet kid. helping Creators with /seemore. yapping on /okbanger. curating in /creators and /cameron. dev + veteran + HBS. 
seemore.tv/cameron 🫡

Hmmm.  Good question.  Would I do it again? Yes.  Was it a satisfying experience?  Absolutely f'ing not.  It went all sorts of pear shaped.  And no one cares.

incredible lesson and sorry you had to get through that 🫡

I'm not feeling sorry for myself, although I did meet Mr Smith a few times and it was very banal.  What drove me nuts was Lenovo carried the can and we couldn't get traction even tho I proved it was a CA based Israeli owned firm.  Shutters came down.

The simple story was Lenovo got duped to put a dumb product in their standard partner build. The real story was it was a USA domicile company and as part of it they were basically installing a root kit and capturing all socket traffic undetected.