Samsung? More like Spysung... amirite?

ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
edited March 2011 in Science & Tech
It seems that Samsung is now pre-loading at least some of their computers with commercial key-logging software.

http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/2011/032811sec2.html

Make sure to read the 2nd article in the series... wherein their support supervisor apparently admits that they pre-loaded the key logging software on their laptops. I know one manufacturer that I won't be buying a computer from any time soon.

Comments

  • TushonTushon I'm scared, Coach Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    edited March 2011
    Thats why my machines always get a wipe with clean install. WTF

    Edit: updates say VIPRE misidentified the software.
  • mertesnmertesn I am Bobby Miller Yukon, OK Icrontian
    edited March 2011
    The second article, in combination with the later discovery of the false positive, really makes me wonder WTF is going on. Someone at Samsung admits to something seriously wrong (and likely highly illegal) they didn't actually do? Weird.
  • AlexDeGruvenAlexDeGruven Wut? Meechigan Icrontian
    edited March 2011
    lol... It makes me wonder if the false positive caused them to admit to something that's buried deeper in the system (a hardware keylogger would be nearly undetectable without ripping apart the system, and not circumvented by a software reinstall).

    :mean: Hey, Samsung! I found this crap on my system! You guys are teh ebil!
    :hair: Oh crap! Umm... Yeah... You got us. We've put them in there, but we haven't activated anything. Sorry.
    :mean: Oh Snap! False alarm.
    :hair::grumble:
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited March 2011
    http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002133.html
  • AlexDeGruvenAlexDeGruven Wut? Meechigan Icrontian
    edited March 2011
    It's still hilarious that customer service did confirm that they shipped StarLogger for things like usage tracking.

    Someone's fired.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited March 2011
    I'm wondering if it was one of two things that generated that "admission":

    1) An acknowledgement that since it was on the laptop, it must have shipped from Samsung, and the admission was just that "damn, I guess we MUST have shipped that" or

    2) They use it internally for testing and QA and somebody thought it must have gotten out into the production run by accident

    Who knows. Not too concerned about it.
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