HP laptops found to have hidden keylogger
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Re: HP laptops found to have hidden keylogger
#2Less of a big deal than they’re trying to make it out to be, it’s disabled by default and a leftover debugging tool.
Re: HP laptops found to have hidden keylogger
#3In related news:
https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/28/hp-quietly-installs-syst...
Re: HP laptops found to have hidden keylogger
#4Less of a big deal than they’re trying to make it out to be, it’s disabled by default and a leftover debugging tool.
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Re: HP laptops found to have hidden keylogger
#5Less of a big deal than they’re trying to make it out to be, it’s disabled by default and a leftover debugging tool.
Yeah, that's the problem with zombie code. You can have articles like this, especially when companies like Lenovo did spy on people with all sorts of bios->OS infecting spyware and MITM SSL tricks.
If it's a binary and potentially readable, they probably shouldn't include the code switch to enable it. Better it never be in there to begin with.
But yeah, if it's disabled by default and looks like a debugging tool, it probably is.
Re: HP laptops found to have hidden keylogger
#6Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15885206
Re: HP laptops found to have hidden keylogger
#7There are key loggers and Key Loggers. If you need admin rights to enable it and it saves the keystrokes locally, then you probably shouldn't care. Anyone with that level of access can install something worse.
Re: HP laptops found to have hidden keylogger
#8Less of a big deal than they’re trying to make it out to be, it’s disabled by default and a leftover debugging tool.
Twice in the same year?
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hp-keylogger-debugging-tool...
How many of these "debugging tools" has HP left enabled, I wonder?
Re: HP laptops found to have hidden keylogger
#9So... This has ballooned from debug code with no evidence of ever being maliciously used to "loss of confidentiality" and now instead of being a keylogger it's a "hidden keylogger."
Dramatic tone change for no actual new news. Sure this is getting the person's blog attention, but now I'm certain I don't agree with the alarmist title of the original post.
Re: HP laptops found to have hidden keylogger
#10There are key loggers and Key Loggers. If you need admin rights to enable it and it saves the keystrokes locally, then you probably shouldn't care. Anyone with that level of access can install something worse.
It still is a keylogger in a consumer product.