Sunday, October 2, 2005 10:00 PM EDT
GOVERNMENT AND COMPUTER MANUFACTURERS CAUGHT INSTALLING HARD-WIRED
KEYSTROKE LOGGERS INTO ALL NEW LAPTOP COMPUTERS!
Devices capture everything you ever type, then 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 From DHS,
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:
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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!
-- Hal Turner http://www.HalTurnerShow.com
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