I should note the solution I came up with for this. "Use a firewall to monitor for suspicious outbound traffic." I guess that's the best solution there is short of disassembling the new machine and knowing what you're looking at.
On 01/28/2013 07:19 PM, Douglas Lucas 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 > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
