Keyloggers in Dell Laptops

[jshilli1]

Not sure if this is 'real' or not, and wanted to get some opinions.

He's basically saying he found flash memory between his keyboard and motherboard in a Dell laptop. Not that Dell doesn't already have my credit card number...

http://c0x2.de/lol/lol.html

 

[Demon]

Could be there for any number of reasons. Since it's a Dell, they probably have it there to enable parents to "monitor" what their children may be using the laptop for. If I read correctly, it's connected to the onboard LAN? There may be a feature "offered" in Dells that allows people to monitor whatever gets done on their laptops.

Legality of such a thing? Can't tell you as I'm not a lawyer. Usefulness? That's really up to you. If you want to check the veracity of this guy's claim, crack open your laptop and take a look at what he's talking about. If it's true, just remove it - shouldn't be too difficult. If you get any strange calls from Dell support, you'll know it was put there for the wrong reasons...

HTH

 

[gergwheel]

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

it is all a hoax. Go to google and do a search for "dell keyboard logger hoax" and you will find plenty of reasons of why this is fake. Had me fooled too till i looked into it.