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Posted: 10/6/2005 5:46:18 AM EDT

A reliable source out of south Florida reports that Microsoft Corp. and the computer sales giant, Dell Computer, has agreed to the terms of an agreement with the Federal Government to include key stroke logging software in every new computer to be manufactured beginning in November 2005.

It is reported that the software records every stroke made on the keyboard and the data is sent via wireless internet (where available) to a Federal data encryption and storage facility so that a supercomputer can scan the data looking for coded messages of national security importance.

The agreement is part of the revised (and recently passed) Homeland Security Bill recently re-enacted by congress.

Michael Dell was overheard to say: "It's good for me. It's good for [Bill] Gates. Hell, it has to be good for America. And besides, no one will know it anyway... so, who really cares, huh?"

Posted: 10/6/2005 5:49:04 AM EDT

[#1]

I build my own computers and use Linux so fuck'em.

Posted: 10/6/2005 5:49:25 AM EDT

[#2]

Don't believe everything you read on the net.

Posted: 10/6/2005 5:49:25 AM EDT

[#3]

BS

Edit to add: www.snopes.com/computer/internet/dellbug.asp

Posted: 10/6/2005 5:50:17 AM EDT

[#4]

I see the south Florida rumor factory is still in business.

Posted: 10/6/2005 5:51:35 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
A ~~reliable source~~ mildly retarded monkey out of south Florida reports that Microsoft Corp. and the computer sales giant, Dell Computer, has agreed to the terms of an agreement with the Federal Government to include key stroke logging software in every new computer to be manufactured beginning in November 2005.

It is reported that the software records every stroke made on the keyboard and the data is sent via wireless internet (where available) to a Federal data encryption and storage facility so that a supercomputer can scan the data looking for coded messages of national security importance.

The agreement is part of the revised (and recently passed) Homeland Security Bill recently re-enacted by congress.

Michael Dell was overheard to say: "It's good for me. It's good for [Bill] Gates. Hell, it has to be good for America. And besides, no one will know it anyway... so, who really cares, huh?"

Fixed it for you.

Computers and operating systems aren't particularly mysterious. You couldn't possibly do this without a LOT of people knowing.

In addition to the fact that this would be grossly illegal, from a practical perspective, how would the feds handle raw key feed coming from 200 million computers?

Posted: 10/6/2005 6:05:01 AM EDT

[#6]

I can't imagine a well educated billionaire of Michael Dell to use the word "huh?"

Posted: 10/6/2005 6:08:58 AM EDT

[#7]

C:\ fdisk

Seriously, that sounds like a load to me. Even if it's true, just reformat and reinstall a (clean) OS and be done with it.

Posted: 10/6/2005 6:23:41 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
I can't imagine a well educated billionaire of Michael Dell to use the word "huh?"

I'm not saying he's not well educated, but he did dropout of college.

Posted: 10/6/2005 6:25:00 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
I build my own computers and use Linux so fuck'em.

+1

Open source is a beautiful thing.

Posted: 10/6/2005 6:27:46 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
A reliable source out of south Florida reports that Microsoft Corp. and the computer sales giant, Dell Computer, has agreed to the terms of an agreement with the Federal Government to include key stroke logging software in every new computer to be manufactured beginning in November 2005.

It is reported that the software records every stroke made on the keyboard and the data is sent via wireless internet (where available) to a Federal data encryption and storage facility so that a supercomputer can scan the data looking for coded messages of national security importance.

The agreement is part of the revised (and recently passed) Homeland Security Bill recently re-enacted by congress.

Michael Dell was overheard to say: "It's good for me. It's good for [Bill] Gates. Hell, it has to be good for America. And besides, no one will know it anyway... so, who really cares, huh?"

What's your source? Cause everyone has called BS.

Posted: 10/6/2005 6:29:27 AM EDT

[#11]

Why do you constantly post this drivel?

Don't you have to get on the short bus to go somewhere right now?

Posted: 10/6/2005 6:32:44 AM EDT

[#12]

Man you post some stupid shit.....you posted something like this about Bin Laden buying up all the oil.

You started that post with "A reliable source out of South Fla."

WTF???

Who the fuck is this source?

Posted: 10/6/2005 6:34:17 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Man you post some stupid shit.....you posted something like this about Bin Laden buying up all the oil.

You started that post with "A reliable source out of South Fla."

WTF???

Who the fuck is this source?

A special ed student who lives in a tin-foil room.

Posted: 10/6/2005 6:37:58 AM EDT

[#14]

This tripe is so retarded, it's sucking IQ points out of my own head into the monitor as I read it.

Posted: 10/6/2005 6:54:54 AM EDT

[#15]

X a googleplex

I don't believe a single word of your insane posting. Not a single word. Just how stupid do you think we are here? Do you even hear what you're saying? It's not like it's hard to discover a key stroke logger - do you think the tens of thousands of security individuals wouldn't ah, know about this? Gee wonder how impossibly hard it would be to install a ah, firewall? - or how about a packet capture program to examine one computer with another?

This must be a poor attempt at humor - honestly.

Posted: 10/6/2005 6:56:39 AM EDT

[#16]

Time to pick up a few pre-bans.

Posted: 10/6/2005 7:00:25 AM EDT

[#17]

Posted: 10/6/2005 7:09:45 AM EDT

[#18]

Horse...

Shit.

Posted: 10/6/2005 7:23:10 AM EDT

[#19]

It's true.... really !!

Posted: 10/6/2005 7:52:02 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
I build my own computers and use Linux so fuck'em.

+1

Posted: 10/6/2005 9:03:20 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Man you post some stupid shit.....you posted something like this about Bin Laden buying up all the oil.

You started that post with "A reliable source out of South Fla."

WTF???

Who the fuck is this source?

He is pull everybody’s chain to see who bites.

Posted: 10/6/2005 4:46:34 PM EDT

[#22]

????

BS

Posted: 10/6/2005 4:47:43 PM EDT

[#23]

You're a dumbfuck for believing this. You're an even bigger dumbfuck for thinking you were doing everyone a favor by posting it on the boards.

Posted: 10/6/2005 4:49:15 PM EDT

[#24]

postcount++

Posted: 10/6/2005 4:50:35 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
I can't imagine a well educated billionaire of Michael Dell to use the word "huh?"

he dropped out of school.

Just think how well he'd have done... if he only finished school and earned a degree.

Posted: 10/6/2005 5:00:49 PM EDT

[#26]

Heh, AMI/Award BIOS chats on the net during computer boot. No, I’m not talking about a DHCP(or BootP) request or a MAC address frame. Some versions go out on the net and check for updates after boot init…

I shudder to think what your favorite three letter agency could do with the 5+ megs of storage on current MBD PROMs.

But hey, we now return you to your regularly scheduled misinformation.

Posted: 10/6/2005 8:44:02 PM EDT

[#27]

Roboman said: You're a dumbfuck for believing this. You're an even bigger dumbfuck for thinking you were doing everyone a favor by posting it on the boards.

Hey everybody!!! I'm a fumduck!!!!!

lawdog

Posted: 10/6/2005 8:47:07 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
A reliable source out of south Florida reports...

You'll believe anything, won't you?

Posted: 10/6/2005 8:49:00 PM EDT

[#29]

Holy crap you guys. This is a classic lawdog troll post.

If you see lawdog and 'reliable source' or 'rumor has it' or some such in a post it's bovine poop.

Posted: 10/6/2005 8:57:42 PM EDT

[#30]

NOV 2005 HUH??? GUESS I GOT A PREBAN COMPUTER!!!! COOL IT WILL GO UP IN PRICE NOT DOWN!!! AS IF THEY DONT IMPEDE OUR RIGHTS ENOUGH TO PRIVACY

Posted: 10/6/2005 9:09:53 PM EDT

[#31]

Oh yeah?

TI994A, Muthfuka!

Track this!
OK, ARFCOM takes an hour per page to load, and I can only see 1/3 of the screen at a time, but it's a rock-solid platform, baby! And it's .gov proof!

Posted: 10/6/2005 9:10:56 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
Roboman said: You're a dumbfuck for believing this. You're an even bigger dumbfuck for thinking you were doing everyone a favor by posting it on the boards.

Hey everybody!!! I'm a fumduck!!!!!

lawdog

At least just say "Postcount ++" and be honest about it.

Posted: 10/6/2005 9:25:43 PM EDT

[#33]

This has just gotten stupid. AWOB.

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