La sicurezza della patria è andato troppo lontano con sorveglianza?

Normalmente, sono tutto per che zio SAM deve fare per effettuare la sicurezza nazionale… a condizione che non vada troppo lontano. La domanda è, con questa storia dentro MOD dell'incisione N, ha lo zio SAM (e calcolatori di Dell) andati un ponticello troppo lontano nel surveilling l'America?

Il fratello maggiore effettivamente sta guardandoli, i miei amici… Un uomo trovato un keylogger ha collegato al bordo integrato di Ethernet del suo pc di 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.

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