Stanford CIS

How Superfish’s Security-Compromising Adware Came to Inhabit Lenovo’s PCs

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"“The padlock is a means of telling you that who you are talking to is who you think you are talking to. Superfish made that mechanism ineffective,” said Jonathan Mayer, a lawyer and computer science graduate student at Stanford University who specializes in digital privacy."

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