Thursday, March 31, 2011

Samsung Selling Laptops With Keyloggers Installed!

The supervisor who spoke with me was not sure how this software ended up in the new laptop thus put me on hold. He confirmed that yes, Samsung did knowingly put this software on the laptop to, as he put it, "monitor the performance of the machine and to find out how it is being used."

In other words, Samsung wanted to gather usage data without obtaining consent from laptop owners.

Link

UPDATE:

Clarification issued. Turns out it was a false alarm.

http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/2011/032811sec2.html

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