Seffiks Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 I was opening up my almost brand new Dell 600m 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. On the other side, one Microchip Technology PIC16F876 Programmable Interrupt Controller, along with a little Fairchild Semiconductor CD4066BCM quad bilateral switch. Looking further, I saw that the other end of the cable was connected to the integrated ethernet board. What could this mean? I called Dell tech support about it, and they said, and I quote, "The intregrated service tag identifier is there for assisting customers in the event of lost or misplaced personal information." He then hung up. A little more research, and I found that that board spliced in between the keyboard and the ethernet chip is little more than a Keyghost hardware keylogger. The reasons Dell would put this in thier laptops can only be left up to your imagination. It would be very impractical to hand-anylze the logs, and very CPU-intensive to do so on a computer for every person that purchased a dell laptop. Why are these keyloggers here? I recently almost found out. I called the police, as having a keylogger unknown to me in my laptop is a serious offense. They told me to call the Department of Homeland Security. At this point, I am in disbelief. Why would the DHS have a keylogger in my laptop? It was surreal. So I called them, and they told me to submit a Freedom of Information Act request. This is what I got back: Capsida.Net - Remote Admin Service not by me, here http://virus.org.ua/unix/keylog/klog.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tellurian Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Damn.... I wonder how many computers have keyloggers in them nowadays. I just ordered a new one too.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x5v1s Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 gestapo !!! <3 them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keso cheese Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 can you take it out without messing anything up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clownshoes Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 not surprised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delonemonkey Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 When my laptop was fucked up this indian dude at dell went on my computer to fix some shit, and i was watching him do shit while on it whil on the the phone it was pretty cool. Anyway the name of my computer is POPPY COCK and he had to have seen it , cuz it was so big. I was laughing pretty hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMad.GIF Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 none of your hardware links work any more in the original post... conspiracy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seffiks Posted September 12, 2009 Author Share Posted September 12, 2009 just one link, and to answer the other question can it be removed ( yes it can) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 That's so fucked up, I have no faith in our government to protect us. Don't buy a dell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 People are saying it is a hoax. Here is a link talking about a keylogging product where the image came from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PITOFZOMBIES Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 gotta love conspiracy theorists... look it up on snopes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 1 hour ago, Blackbear said: Why don't you buy a Dell computer, is there any problem with this brand of computer? It encourages spammer assholes to make posts about it online. Also Dells have a decreased fapability factor compared to other computers. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 I jerked off to some porn I watched on Dell monitor one time and forgot to wear a condom, next thing you know I had a computer virus in my pp. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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