Comments on: Tin hat bonus: Jetlag got me.

By: Eliseo

Eliseo — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:25:14 +0000

Nice Stuff… Keep It Up.

By: Jefferson

Jefferson — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:17:37 +0000

I also don’t think that such a company like Dell would have put keyloggers into their computers, but it is better to have hardware anti-keylogger anyway like PrivacyKeyboard or any other.

By: despot

despot — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:37:42 +0000

if dell was going to do this, wouldn’t they keep it all on the motherboard to both keep inconspicuous and incase of keyboard replacement, continue loging? this is illogical, plus they would be in serious legal trouble. also to them a simple keylogger would be useless… embedding their own trojan in your preloaded windows would be much simpler for stealing your info.
OH NOES!!!!!!!
*paranoia paranoia everyone’s out to get me*

By: AnneATDell

AnneATDell — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:29:30 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks for going on the record regarding this being a hoax. Sometimes a quick check of mythbusting sites like Snopes will help determine if a rumor is trueâ¦in this case this is FALSE: http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/dellbug.asp

By: tim

tim — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:16:51 +0000

what about building a keylogger disguised as ps/2 t usb adapter…that would be a wicket promotional item

By: colby

colby — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:48:18 +0000

did anyone ever think that the reason it’s been posted as “it’s a hoax” is that someone got contacted by a certain agency, I won’t claim to know which, and was told to say that this is just a hoax? It would be a most effective and cost free method for them to cover it up. Everyone on here gives the webmaster credibility, and it gives “them” plausible deniability about any sort of cover up. I’m not making acusations, but it all seems a bit fishy.

By: BOFH

BOFH — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:13:53 +0000

All I can say is:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:45:11 +0000

Don't sweat the hoax man.

stuff happens.

By: Daniel Rutter

Daniel Rutter — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:37:51 +0000

The wonderful picture that always attracts everybody's attention to this hoax is, by the way, MINE, from my old review of the KeyGhost Security Keyboard:
http://www.dansdata.com/keyghost.htm

By: dioxide

dioxide — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:36:16 +0000

Yes it could definitely be real, but this one, like squidhat and weirdguy said, is total and absolute hoax....

I mean, you don't need anyone to tell you, just do what I did: Look at the source code of the page :-)

(Finally, all those months spent playing notpron are somewhat paying up :-P)

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:50:55 +0000

OK, this one is a hoax. But why couldn't it be real? I wouldn't hook mine up to the Ethernet line, but it seems entirely plausible to me that you could build a keyboard sniffer with an integrated Bluetooth or WiFi interface for readout. Take a surface-point Atmel or PIC16F, a serial EEPROM, tiny BT module and you're off. The 600m is easy enough to work inside, and very few people take their laptops apart enough to see something like that (and would probably mistake it for the modem or BT modules anyway - they look similar enough).

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:01:54 +0000

Google “dell laptop keylogger” there are many discussions about it. Scary concept still of course

By: stopit

stopit — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:01:42 +0000

Old hoax which has long been debunked.

The PS/2 cable should be a good giveaway Laptops use ribbon cable.

Please issue a public apology so we know you are not using manufactured fear to increase ad hits/revenue, like Digg, Slashdot, and Make routinely do.

By: Weirdguy

Weirdguy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:01:20 +0000

This was on here a few years ago IIRC

Also it is FAKE

100% FAKE

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:52:56 +0000

Here's the Snopes link for those interested: http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/dellbug.asp

This is a few years old, by the way.