Peter Hortensius, the chief technology officer for Lenovo, has now admitted the company "messed up" when it decided to pre-install the Superfish software on some of its notebooks in the fall of 2014. Users discovered the application placed third-party ads on Google search results and other websites, and also used a root certificate that was quickly cracked by security researchers.
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