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Date: September 27, 2007 4:11:54 AM PDT
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Subject: If You Enjoy Having a GPS in Your Cell Phone, You'll Love
THIS ...
THE GOVERNMENT AND COMPUTER MANUFACTURERS HAVE INSTALLED
HARD-WIRED KEYSTROKE LOGGERS
IN ALL NEW LAPTOP COMPUTERS!
Turner Radio Network | October 4, 2005
http://fearthegovernment.com/keystroke_logger.html
Devices capturing everything you ever type can send it via your
ethernet card to the Dept. of Homeland Security without your
knowledge, consent or a search warrant, each time you log onto the
internet!
Freedom of Information Act Requests for Explanation refused.
I was opening up my almost brand new 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 the manufacturer's 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 a computer manufacturer would put this in their 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 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:
.
Under the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) the only items exempt
from public disclosure are items relating to "law enforcement tools
and techniques" and "items relating to national security."
The real life implications of this are plain: Computer
manufacturers appear to be cooperating with the Department of
Homeland Security to make every person who buys a new computer
subject to immediate, unrestricted government recording of
everything they do on those computers! EVERYTHING !
This information can be sent to DHS, online, without your knowledge
or consent, without a search warrant or even probable cause!
That's why this device is hard-wired directly into the ethernet
card, which communicates over the internet!
I am not certain how long this information will be permitted to
remain online for all the world to see before the government takes
some type of action to attempt to have it removed from public view.
I URGE you to take copy of this page immediately and spread this
information to everyone you know immediately! The more people who
find out about this, the more can protect themselves and raise a
HUGE outcry to force government and computer manufacturers to
immediately CEASE installing these devices in new computers!
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