[conspire] (forw) [sf-lug] Samsung preinstalls Keylogging software on the computer.

[Breen Mullins]

* Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> [2011-03-30 15:00 -0700]:

>Wow.  Keylogger preinstalled as part of the windows load by laptop
>manufacturer Samsung -- and Samsung first lied, and then admitted and
>tried to justify this action, per the linked follow-up article
>(http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/2011/040411sec1.html).
>
>The latter link is about to become item 'Samsung' on my Web site's front
>page.
>
It now appears that the whole story was an overreaction by a user 
confused by a false positive from an AV scanner.

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/03/31/no-samsung-is-not-shipping-laptops-with-keyloggerspy-software/

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Breen Mullins
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