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    "We Messed Up Badly" Lenovo Admits Putting Tracking Software On Your PC

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-0...ftware-your-pc

    File this under ‘you can’t make this stuff up.’

    Lenovo Group, the largest computer manufacturer in the world, has made a rather stunning admission that they have been pre-installing tracking software on their PCs.

    The tracking software is made by a company called Superfish, which apparently paid some “very minor compensation” to Lenovo for putting the software on people’s computers.

    The Superfish program is a total disaster.

    It has image recognition algorithms which essentially monitor what a user is looking at… then suggests relevant ads based on what it thinks you might like.

    This is not only REALLY high up on the creepy scale, it also completely destroys Internet security.

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    Cameras in your TV
    Cameras in your Games
    Cameras on your Phone
    Cameras in your Cable Box
    Cameras in your Computer
    Cameras on Drones
    Cameras recording your License Plate

    Make no mistake, Big Brother is HERE,. NOW. This is the "Complacency Phase" where the trust of the individual is earned. They will refrain from using all the data collected against any individual until no one is able to get around any of it. Then you enter Endgame Phase. Too much bacon? You will be fined, automatically. Speed? Auto-ticket. Child is 1 ounce overweight? Visit from CPS. Thats the 1984 version, the Brave New World version is you look up some information on a subject that weakens the Status Quo, you will be distracted. Big Brother in Brave New World is basically the polar opposite of 1984 where instead of lack of information in 1984, in Brave New World you are given too much information. Overload instead of Starvation. Equally dangerous. Why do you think when you are watching a video on youtube about how the Federal Reserve works, you are shown "Related Videos" that deal with Justin Beibers Haircut or Brittney Spears Nip Slip? Weapon of Mass Distraction. And we entertain ourselves, literally to death. Try searching Google for Privacy and discover just how the way the information is presented to you is so heavily biased. It is filtered. Actual dangers from the invasions of privacy are NEVER contained within their search results, they turn around and ALWAYS tell you the same message over and over "Privacy is Dead (with Steve Rambam) get over it" and "How giving up your privacy can be useful". Information is biased in its presentation to sway your Normalcy Bias of the world that "No Privacy" is "No Big Deal". This is exactly what will happen in a "Lull Into Complacency Phase". Humans seem to have a nearly unlimited capacity to gorge upon distractions. TVs were the idiot boxes of the 20th century, showing biased perspectives and normalizing Police Brutality and Psychopathic Behavior and "Everything is Fine". The 21st century will used Targetted Advertising creating even more effective perception alteration mechanisms that best suit the users individual psychology.

    Brainwashing as it is portrayed in most media will subject an individual to tremendous degrees of physical manipulation where by the subject is strapped into a chair, head locked into position and eyelids forced open while being displayed a series of hypnotic suggestions. This is NOT how real brainwashing happens. Real Brainwashing exploits shortcuts in the way the mind works in order to implant themselves into the victims consiousness, similar to a computer virus, and the subject is often completely unaware of these manipulations because of how subtle they are. Brainwashing is most effective when a person Suspends Disbelief. While watching a TV show, the viewers go into a state of mind where they accept what they see as reality, which allows them to see the actors as the characters they portray and their false enviornments as real enviornments, and because the crew and cameramen and directors and sound engineers are out of frame, they do not exist. This is really just an adult mantifestation of a childhood mental characteristic called "Object Permanence". If an object is not seen, it no longer exists. Object Permanence is usually established between three and four years of age. Suspension of Disbelief is an extension of Object Permanence. It is with this that the minds of the subjects are controlled. There are no other Presidential Candidates other than Obama and Romney. When they refused to mention or acknowledge Ron Paul, he literally did not exist in the minds of many viewers. There are no other choices. As people become aware, they can realize "The Box" that people are told to think outside of are the Limitations of Choice. Coke or Pepsi. Miller or Budweiser. Toyota or GM. Brown or White. America or Middle East. No other choices are ever offered so that they literally do not exist in the minds of people who are in a state of Suspended Disbelief. This is Real Brainwashing, and it is weaponized and VERY powerful. All the Invasions of Privacy achieve two things. First, they measure how effective specific materials are on an observer. Next, they provide ample evidence to controllers (probably AI or simply algorhythms) to provide evidence of when "corrections need to be made to the psyche of the subject".

    This is YOUR FUTURE. To either be coerced into compliance by either Mental enslavement, or Physical enslavement. Brave New World again differs from 1984 where the Mind of the subject is fully enslaved to controllers where as 1984 Physically enslaves the body of the subject. Total Enslavement of both Mind and Body will be applied in full force. And it will all be sold to you as Ultimate Freedom. Monopoly of Belief that you are free, when you are not. It is nearly impossible to free people from the chains they revere. Trap their minds within a prison they can not see or smell or touch. A Prison for your Minds. That is Brainwashing. That is the fullest application of the elimination of Privacy, when everything becomes subject to approval.
    1776 > 1984

    The FAILURE of the United States Government to operate and maintain an
    Honest Money System , which frees the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, is the single largest contributing factor to the World's current Economic Crisis.

    The Elimination of Privacy is the Architecture of Genocide

    Belief, Money, and Violence are the three ways all people are controlled

    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    Our central bank is not privately owned.



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    This is YOUR FUTURE. To either be coerced into compliance by either Mental enslavement, or Physical enslavement. Brave New World again differs from 1984 where the Mind of the subject is fully enslaved to controllers where as 1984 Physically enslaves the body of the subject. Total Enslavement of both Mind and Body will be applied in full force. And it will all be sold to you as Ultimate Freedom. Monopoly of Belief that you are free, when you are not. It is nearly impossible to free people from the chains they revere. Trap their minds within a prison they can not see or smell or touch. A Prison for your Minds. That is Brainwashing. That is the fullest application of the elimination of Privacy, when everything becomes subject to approval.
    Disagree with this. Newspeak and Doublespeak in 1984 were forms of mind control. And the Thought Police, of course, and the Ministry Of Truth, etc. The propaganda and mass mindwashing techniques described in that book are Soviet in origin-they're copied from Zamyatin's "We", a dystopian futuristic novel based on the reality of the Total State in 1920's/30's Russia.

    Of course, don't forget the famous propaganda and INGSOC slogans/phrases Orwell came up with-such as WAR IS PEACE. SLAVERY IS FREEDOM. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
    Quote Originally Posted by Torchbearer
    what works can never be discussed online. there is only one language the government understands, and until the people start speaking it by the magazine full... things will remain the same.
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    Lenovo Made An Automatic Removal Tool For Its Adware Mess

    Lenovo's pre-installation of the Superfish adware is one of the biggest $#@!-ups the company could have made, but at least it's cleaning up fairly quickly: it created a custom uninstall tool to clean your computer of the program and its certificates, and in a responsibly transparent move, also posted the source code and license of the removal tool for scrutiny.

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    http://gizmodo.com/lenovo-made-an-au...ium=socialflow

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    Checked all my Lenovo machines, no Superfish.

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    Windows alone is bad enough. Who knows how many intentional backdoors and unknown security holes are in it. But then you add an OEM like Lenovo fiddling with things, and it's even more untrustworthy. I would never keep the OEM's install; wipe it and install a clean, unbloated and undefiled version.

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    http://news.lenovo.com/article_displ...rticle_id=1929

    .....To be clear: Lenovo never installed this software on any ThinkPad notebooks, nor any desktops, tablets, smartphones or servers; and it is no longer being installed on any Lenovo device. In addition, we are going to spend the next few weeks digging in on this issue, learning what we can do better. We will talk with partners, industry experts and our users. We will get their feedback. By the end of this month, we will announce a plan to help lead Lenovo and our industry forward with deeper knowledge, more understanding and even greater focus on issues surrounding adware, pre-installs and security. We are confident in our products, committed to this effort and determined to keep improving the experience for our users around the world.

    Superfish may have appeared on these models:
    G Series: G410, G510, G710, G40-70, G50-70, G40-30, G50-30, G40-45, G50-45
    U Series: U330P, U430P, U330Touch, U430Touch, U530Touch
    Y Series: Y430P, Y40-70, Y50-70
    Z Series: Z40-75, Z50-75, Z40-70, Z50-70
    S Series: S310, S410, S40-70, S415, S415Touch, S20-30, S20-30Touch
    Flex Series: Flex2 14D, Flex2 15D, Flex2 14, Flex2 15, Flex2 14(BTM), Flex2 15(BTM), Flex 10
    MIIX Series: MIIX2-8, MIIX2-10, MIIX2-11
    YOGA Series: YOGA2Pro-13, YOGA2-13, YOGA2-11BTM, YOGA2-11HSW
    E Series: E10-30



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