I’m pretty sure this was classified as ‘TinFoil’.
I always check for flash drives on any public computer.......background logging on a system with good security is less likely though IMO.
http://www.rohos.com/kid-logger/
mark
You're excerpting a rumor?
Old news for tinfoilers.
seriously.
Here’s another excerpt from your source.
http://hardtruth.navhost.com/brainwashed.html
“Do you believe that the United States was struck by terrorist attacks on Sept. 11th and do you think that the people behind the attacks were “Arabs”? Do you believe that the mastermind of the attacks was this fellow, Osama bin Laden, operating from a cave in Afghanistan? Do you think that the only way to stop terrorism is to hit the terrorists hard, hit them at their “bases”, in such remote places of the world like Afghanistan, and attack any nation who might sponsor them, like Iraq?”
“And what about the economy? Do you think that the recent fall of the stock market and the weakness in our economy have been directly caused by the Sept. 11th attacks? Ready to see how well you did? If you answered *yes* to any of these questions, you are most likely brainwashed. If you answered *yes* to more than one, or heaven forbid, all of them, you are definitely a goner and are hereby granted the title of *Imbecile*.”
No. Not true. There are a group of guys/girls (including me) that take this stuff apart down to the bit level. If that were the case it would be discovered in minutes of a release. TinFoil hat time....Now, let me say for the record that keyboard loggers exist, and may be secretly installed on a computer, but not by the manufacture. Use a good fire-wall, virus scanner, and common sense, and you will be secure.
This is the same as the the Potomac River terrorist truthers. OOOPPPSSS, my tinfoil slipped and the bad waves are corrupting my mind.
I will not believe it until the voice in my pants says to!
I was opening up my almost brand new laptop, to replace a broken PCMCIA slot riser on the motherboardWhat was he going to use to solder/unsolder the multi-pin conector - a 5$ chisel-point Radio Shack soldering iron?
Work of this type requires a hot-air rework station and the SKILL to operate it ...
Regards
if true, some smart entepeneur will start a business disabling the link ...
Yes, this person is so important that DHS, the NSA, and the FBI all want to capture and analyze his every keystroke, 7 x 24 x 365.
In fact, “they” have an enormous secret facility on the grounds of Ft. Meade MD that employs 20,000 top secret analysts who watch and flag the keystroke patterns of millions of Americans and foreigners every day.
So be careful, your “keyboard” is connected by “suspicious wires” to a “secret DHS/NSA/FBI communications chip.”
Be careful out there!
1. no mention of the name or model number of the computer. If true, I think he would want this information to get out to the public.
2. Very blurry picture of the connection, especially when compared to the other sharp pictures.
3. Four wire connection on the disassembled board. That looks like the wiring for an external keyboard. Laptop keyboards are usually connected to their motherboards with a flexible ribbon cable because the decoding electronics are split between the keyboard and the motherboard, unlike an external keyboard where all the decoding has to be on the keyboard.
4. Calling the PIC16F876 a Programmable Interrupt Controller. That is where the acronym PIC comes from, but they have been full (if somewhat quirky) microprocessors for a long time.
5. It would be vastly easier for the government to get Microsoft and Apple to drop a keylogger into the operating system or the manufacturers to include one built into the motherboard than convert the raw signals to a PS/2 style signal (it doesn't look like a USB cable) to record.
>>> 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
To be on the safe side, I’d recommend cutting all wire connecting to the motherboard. That’ll show them.
This silliness just won’t die :(