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Schneier on Security: Dell Keyboard Loggers: “”

(Via Bruce’s blog.)

Bruce Schneier doubts the truth of the Dell keyboard logger “story” commenting that its an urban legend. I have to admit, I agree with him, and also one commenter. (PS: this guy get the prize for the techy comment of the post):

Its an obvious hoax to the extent that no laptop vendor would add 20c to the cost of laptop if they could help it, let alone many tens of dollars.

If they wanted to log the keystrokes, they would just reprogram the keyboard controller BIOS instead. Why add extra hardware when there is a 16 bit RISC core between all local keyboard and mouse actions and the main CPU. If they did that, there is nothing to find unless you disassemble the bios and find the KBC code (its in the same bit of flash, just a different assembler)

Just in case you thought it was real