The Dell keylogger conspiracy hoax
Just in case you've seen that web page floating around implicating Dell in some wacked out government conspiracy by suggesting they fit a 4mb keylogger between the keyboard end of some guy's 600m and the Ethernet adapter, we'd like to point out a few key bits, having been inside a Dell laptop or forty.
Dell laptop keyboards plug directly into the motherboard with a ribbon cable
He was inside to replace a broken PCMCIA slot riser on the motherboard? Uh, that's a guaranteed next-day mobo replacement on a "almost brand new Dell 600m"—not that you could, but why bother even if you knew how and had spare laptop motherboard parts?
We've never seen a zip-tied circuit board in professionally assembled machine
That device is far too massive to fit under the mobo of a Dell laptop
Awful blurry picture of where it's at in the machine!
Sorry dude, but we're calling major, major BS on this. Anyone care to prove us wrong and open up a huge can of civil rights violations?
Update: Looks like the hoaxster pulled the images from here. [Thanks, scim]
