Re: Has anyone verified this?

On Tue, September 5, 2006 11:58, Bruce Satow wrote:
> I ran into this webpage about a person who found what looks like a
> keylogger device bulit into his Dell 600m laptop. Has anyone here
> verified this?
>
> http://virus.org.ua/unix/keylog/klog.htm
>
> If true, it would be interesting to see if other laptops contain similar
> circuitry.

  For what this may be worth, Snopes claims this claim is a deliberate hoax:

  http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/dellbug.asp

Aron Roberts
Information Services and Technology

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Received on Tue Sep 5 12:15:39 2006