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1 year agoMaybe you misread. aeternum gave two reasons for not “using Google”: (1) they often shut down services—his/her original reason—and (2) being “evil”, an additional reason and possibly a reference to Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto which is now used only in a very weak context at the end of their Code of Conduct.
It’s even more trivial to remove the hard drive and read/write it directly, possibly even booting it on a separate system directly or in a virtual machine. BIOS passwords (on all x86 systems, not just Lenovo) provide very limited security benefits, but they can be sufficient for some basic security requirements.