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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Brooklyn, NY

tmc8080

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not new

some of the major makers in laptops allowed key loggers to be default installed into the bios shortly after 2001 in the fight against terrorism and tablets have had their own spytools put into them as well.

so unless you recode the entire products being made today including low-level bios's you have the probability of it being non-secure.

there's probably a good market in older devices which have not been compromised by these measures.

miataman
I've attained a PHD in DVR.
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join:2010-10-27
Chelmsford, MA

miataman

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If we could just identify the hardware.
en103
join:2011-05-02

en103

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Too add more fun to that... back in the 90's, CPU manufacturers added in serial number tracking abilities. Pretty much EVERY aspect of a modern computer can be tracked by serial / embedded firmware. This came more into play after NICs had their MACs cloned.