Comment Re:How's this any different... (Score 4, Informative) 114
This fine bloatware didn't merely act as an MiTM, it do so so incompetently that it exposed the user to basically any MiTM attack on an SSL connection(the root cert it used to sign bogus certificates was identical across every installation and effectively unprotected and the MiTM component would re-sign any cert handed to it, even an invalid one, opening the user to downright trivial MiTM attacks.
Even if the actual behavior of the bloatware were downright saintly(which is not the case) it was so incompetently constructed as to be indistinguishable from malice.
Even if the actual behavior of the bloatware were downright saintly(which is not the case) it was so incompetently constructed as to be indistinguishable from malice.