According to Snopes, the Dell laptop keylogger story is a hoax. They claim the FOIA request is an altered version of someone else's correspondence: http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/dellbug.asp
Regardless, malicious or vulnerable hardware does exist in the wild and are generally difficult to detect. Untrusted hardware is not a lost cause. My company is working this problem and has made significant progress toward mitigating the risk. On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Douglas Lucas <d...@riseup.net> wrote: > What about checking hardware? There's a lot of discussion about > protecting against software threats, but not as much about hardware. > > What should a person do to check a brand-new laptop for hardware > keyloggers or other threats? > > The author of this page - http://virus.org.ua/unix/keylog/klog.htm - > claims to have found a hardware keylogger in a nearly brand-new Dell > laptop. The author even submitted a FOIA about it. > > Douglas > >
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