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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Is Homeland Security bugging your computer? Is Dell helping them?

Here's the story of someone who bough a new Dell laptop and found a keylogger built into the computer without his permission. The Department of Homepand Security says that the information about this is "exempt from FOIA"!

UPDATE: As a commenter points out, this is a hoax.

2 Comments:

At Tue Jul 11, 01:41:00 PM , Blogger Rebecca B. said...

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At Tue Jul 11, 01:42:00 PM , Blogger Rebecca B. said...

While this is a great story to get people's hearts racing, it is an urban legend. See Snopes http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/dellbug.asp

 

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