[liberationtech] advice on securing a new computer

[Steve Weis]

According to Snopes, the Dell laptop keylogger story is a hoax. They claim
the FOIA request is an altered version of someone else's correspondence:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/dellbug.asp

Regardless, malicious or vulnerable hardware does exist in the wild and are
generally difficult to detect.

Untrusted hardware is not a lost cause. My company is working this problem
and has made significant progress toward mitigating the risk.


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Douglas Lucas <dal at riseup.net> wrote:

> What about checking hardware? There's a lot of discussion about
> protecting against software threats, but not as much about hardware.
>
> What should a person do to check a brand-new laptop for hardware
> keyloggers or other threats?
>
> The author of this page - http://virus.org.ua/unix/keylog/klog.htm -
> claims to have found a hardware keylogger in a nearly brand-new Dell
> laptop. The author even submitted a FOIA about it.
>
> Douglas
>
>
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