Hardware keylogger in Dell laptops?

[Taz]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned on Hexus before but here's a site that may interest a few people:

http://virus.org.ua/unix/keylog/klog.htm

Make of it what you will!

[holy god of nil]

I'm scared

Where did I put that tin hat...

[Gordy]

Is it that time of year for this old hoax to be rolled out again....

[WLC-1989]

http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/dellbug.asp

[dave87]

lol, I was all but ready to open up my laptop and find if I had one...

[XA04]

Even though its a hoax, was an interesting read!. Must of missed out on this last year.

[BEANFro Elite]

I'm scared

Where did I put that tin hat...

Someone posted on here ages ago that tin hats actually served to amplify your brainwaves or direct the waves that detect the brainwaves straight to your brainwaves.

But look at the size of the cables connecting the "keylogger" to the keyboard, its a bit much, I'd have thought a conductive keyboard strip cable would be so much more believeable and imagine how much more expensive the harware method would be compared to a software equivilant.

[GeorgeTuk]

Oh noes teh fear!

Love this kind of tosh...why do things like this get such credibility, it seems people take leave of their sense when using the web.