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[I] I found this at Prepared for the Worse
edited: Inappropriate links on listed site.
http://engadget.com/entry/1234000317047049/
and so???
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* 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!
* 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!
1. True, but it is possible to install a keylogger inline with the keyboard cable. All one would have to do is intercept the signal anywhere on the cable, and a keylogger can read it.
2. Uh, that's not the way Dell operates. When they finally get around to authorizing your return, you need to send it in (takes 2 days), wait for them to repair/replace anything (time unknown) and then send it back (overnight). Even in my last job, where we had 40+ Dell machines, they did not send us parts to fix them.. even if the machines were broken out of the box!
3. They've never looked inside a Dell before. Everything is zip-tied in every dell I've seen. Including the 2 I just opened up to verify..
4. No comment, I havn't seen the model, nor do I know the dimensions of the device.
5. To thier things about the pics.. Hell, even I don't own a working digital camera ATM..
I did like the response he got back from HS... very government like.
and thank you Princessvala, another forum for us "gun toting survival nuts"
It seems odd. But look at the link to the page:
http://c0x2.de/lol/lol.html
lol? Sounds like Bullshit to me.
http://c0x2.de/lol/lol.html
lol? Sounds like Bullshit to me.
it could very well be BS.. this time.. I really don't expect the government to have any morals..
but that's me.
but that's me.
QUOTE(bigbrother @ Jun 23 2005, 07:18 PM)
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/dellbug.asp
Might find that helpful.
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Might find that helpful.
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Damn, you beat me to it, BigBrother!
The moron just removed his flash memory...
The AT4500 model is a little older...
ATMEL Website
ATMEL is the brandname on the chip provided by the first site that was posted. That guy is just a nut.
The AT4500 model is a little older...
ATMEL Website
ATMEL is the brandname on the chip provided by the first site that was posted. That guy is just a nut.
QUOTE(hunterkiller2001 @ Jun 23 2005, 05:30 AM)
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* 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!
* 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!
1. True, but it is possible to install a keylogger inline with the keyboard cable. All one would have to do is intercept the signal anywhere on the cable, and a keylogger can read it.
2. Uh, that's not the way Dell operates. When they finally get around to authorizing your return, you need to send it in (takes 2 days), wait for them to repair/replace anything (time unknown) and then send it back (overnight). Even in my last job, where we had 40+ Dell machines, they did not send us parts to fix them.. even if the machines were broken out of the box!
3. They've never looked inside a Dell before. Everything is zip-tied in every dell I've seen. Including the 2 I just opened up to verify..
4. No comment, I havn't seen the model, nor do I know the dimensions of the device.
5. To thier things about the pics.. Hell, even I don't own a working digital camera ATM..
I did like the response he got back from HS... very government like.
and thank you Princessvala, another forum for us "gun toting survival nuts"
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