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>Lots of other laptops has the same whitelist annoyance

Which other brands?



Like all of it. It's a feature in BIOS, and commercial BIOS is sourced from Phoenix, AMI, Insyde, etc. It's like asking which car brand use Brembo disc brakes. It's up to designers and model dependent.


That wasn't the question. I only know of Lenovo Thinkpads doing this heinous act.

They only do it there, on the cheap-ass notebooks they don't care.


You've only heard on ThinkPad having it because it's most easily encountered problem. HP, Dell, ASUS, Fujitsu, Toshiba, VAIO, ... they all have it in some models and not on others. But Dell users don't swear by their Inspirons or maintain LatitudeWiki.

White-box suppliers/resellers like Clevo or Walmart, or more recent entries like Microsoft, Huawei, Razer, Valve, etc might not have it across the lineup. Whitelist feature also invites people break root of trust; that might be an alternate concern for those brands too.


Which makes the argument that the FCC somehow requires this moot.




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