A cautionary note for those of you with shiny new computers

[Warpy]

instead of a creaking old box like mine that I keep replacing the guts in:

"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."

Scary stuff at http://www.chromance.de/wtf/lol.htm

[skids]

1. Dude, that is seriously scary.

Especially if he's right and it is connected to the ethernet logic.

[charlie]

2. Hoax

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000317047049/