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¿La seguridad de la patria ha ido demasiado lejos con vigilancia?
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Normalmente, soy todo para qué tío SAM necesita hacer para mantener seguridad nacional… siempre y cuando no va demasiado lejos. La pregunta está, con esta historia adentro MOD del corte N¿, tiene el tío SAM (y computadoras de Dell) idos un puente demasiado lejos en surveilling América?
El hermano mayor le está mirando de hecho, mis amigos… Un hombre encontrado un keylogger conectó con el tablero integrado de Ethernet de su PC de Dell.
The story goes on to state that Dell gave him a nondescript reply and after consulting local law enforcement, he made a FOIA request regarding it. The reply is interesting, but may not be the entire story. Not everything is black helicopters and wiretaps.
On it’s face, it appears that Dell Computer may be participating in a felony by installing hardware keyloggers in their Dell Laptops. However, there are some real world applications for a hardware keylogger … such as information security on business laptops and backup potential in the event of a catastrophic software or hard drive failure. And one comfort is that according Keyghost, the makers of the keylogger, only an administrator can access the log, which only records up to 128,000 characters. Then there’s the deterrant capability that if employees know that a keylogger is installed on their business computers, they won’t use those computers for unauthorized or nefarious uses.
It could be a mistake of distribution, or deliberate design meant to accommodate their business customers. But if Dell is installing these in all their laptops and not advising their customers with an option to have it removed, then perhaps they are indeed violating a customer’s rights.
Copyright 2005-2008 Sagecroft Technologies
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Anne@dell
Posted: Feb 22nd, 2008 at 7:10 pm | Link to this
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Anne@dell
Posted: Feb 22nd, 2008 at 7:18 pm | Link to this
Reply2nd post - my first post had a bad link in it. Snopes identified this as a hoax in 2005. http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/dellbug.asp
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This hoax was exposed some time ago but we still see some bloggers taken in by it now and then. More info at: http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/06 /17/keylogger-found-in-dell-laptop/