Keystroke Loggers (Installed In New Laptop Computers) | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 773469 Portugal 09/17/2009 06:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So what can we do to correct this? I'm not computer savvy enough to open anything! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 730536Here you go! [link to boycottnovell.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 777661 United States 09/23/2009 04:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Twana Blevins," is a real low-life for stealing this story and taking credit. Especially since she/he changes the story to not specifically inform the people as to what device it actually was. Causing paranoia and fear into everybody who has a laptop (of any sort). The model used was a dell 600m laptop What an idiot. Original story here. "I was opening up my almost brand new Dell 600m laptop, to replace a broken PCMCIA slot riser on the motherboard. As soon as I got the keyboard off, I noticed a small cable running from the keyboard connection underneath a piece of metal protecting the motherboard. I figured "No Big Deal", and continued with the dissasembly. But when I got the metal panels off, I saw a small white heatshink-wrapped package. Being ever-curious, I sliced the heatshrink open. I found a little circuit board inside. Being an EE by trade, this piqued my curiosity considerably. On one side of the board, one Atmel AT45D041A four megabit Flash memory chip. On the other side, one Microchip Technology PIC16F876 Programmable Interrupt Controller, along with a little Fairchild Semiconductor CD4066BCM quad bilateral switch. Looking further, I saw that the other end of the cable was connected to the integrated ethernet board. What could this mean? I called Dell tech support about it, and they said, and I quote, "The intregrated service tag identifier is there for assisting customers in the event of lost or misplaced personal information." He then hung up. A little more research, and I found that that board spliced in between the keyboard and the ethernet chip is little more than a Keyghost hardware keylogger. The reasons Dell would put this in thier laptops can only be left up to your imagination. It would be very impractical to hand-anylze the logs, and very CPU-intensive to do so on a computer for every person that purchased a dell laptop. Why are these keyloggers here? I recently almost found out. I called the police, as having a keylogger unknown to me in my laptop is a serious offense. They told me to call the Department of Homeland Security. At this point, I am in disbelief. Why would the DHS have a keylogger in my laptop? It was surreal. So I called them, and they told me to submit a Freedom of Information Act request. This is what I got back: " |
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