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NWO Keylogging your Laptop CT

SpaceMonkeyZero

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While "Stumbling" this morning, I came across this gem from "Conspiracyresearch.org"

http://www.conspiracyresearch.org/forums/Is-Your-Laptop-Your-Best-Friend-t32511.html

GOVERNMENT AND COMPUTER MANUFACTURERS CAUGHT INSTALLING HARD-WIRED KEYSTROKE LOGGERS INTO ALL NEW LAPTOP COMPUTERS!

Turner Radio Network | October 4, 2005

Devices capture everything you ever type, then can send it via your ethernet card to the Dept. of Homeland Security without your knowledge, consent or a search warrant each time you log onto the internet!

Freedom Of Information Act Requests For Explanation From DHS, refused.

I was opening up my almost brand new 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.
Click to expand...

Anyways, he claims to have posted a FOIA denied request (which is generic so who knows what he was requesting)

Anyone hear of this?

Besides the obvious that RFID keylogging is useless unless your being followed by a spook less than 30 yards away.
 
As if.

How are you going to connect the 16F876 to the ethernet controller? There's no standard device interface and the serial port is already being used for the flash!
 
While not quite a debunking, my thoughts cast doubt on this story:
  1. His "almost brand new laptop"?... And he was going to void the warranty by cracking it open himself? Dell's not too happy about people messing around on the inside of a warranty-covered laptop by themselves; I know this from personal experience (disclosure: Not only am I typing this in on a Dell Inspiron right now and used to have a Latitude (and therefore am very familiar with Dell laptop support), but I also work in computer support for a major university. I'm capable of doing much work myself, but Dell still insists on sending a tech out in my case, or having me send the unit back).
  2. While Dell's buisness end laptops still have them, the Inspiron line no longer uses the PC Card slot; they're now shipping with "Express Card" slots instead. So this "almost brand new laptop" might have been a Latitude, true, but those are aimed at business users; most home folks get the Inspirons (better stand-alone pricing for mostly - not completely - the same hardware)
UPDATE: Bah! Scratch point 2. I didn't look at the date of myth in the OP. Dell may have still been using PC Cards in the Inspirons back in '05. Should've read it closer.
 
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So, wait, he took his computer apart and was surprised to find bits of computer inside? OK...
 
to address point 1, there are a lot of people that would rather void a warranty and take the cost of a replacing a part themselves than send it away for repairs (im one of those people :) i even have a tshirt that says "I void warranties")

but either way, the snopes debunking is better, they found the website he lifted the images of the keylogger from, and it clearly didnt come from his laptop (plus if you compare the photo he took of the "object" in his laptop its clearly from a different camera and/or photographer as the pictures of the keylogger, and also not even the same object)
 
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