Is Homeland Security bugging your computer? Is Dell helping them?
Here’s the story of someone who bough a new Dell laptop and found a keylogger built into the computer without his permission. The Department of Homepand Security says that the information about this is “exempt from FOIA”!
UPDATE: As a commenter points out, this is a hoax.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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One Reply to “Is Homeland Security bugging your computer? Is Dell helping them?”
While this is a great story to get people’s hearts racing, it is an urban legend. See Snopes http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/dellbug.asp