apu95

I got this link in an email from a friend...I'm not sure about the validity, but if its true its some freaky ****.
http://www.c0x2.de/lol/lol.html

I wonder (if its true of course) if other manufacturers have done something similar.

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Petros

Snopes is your friend. And the flash chip mentioned is a mere 512k, hardly enough to store your life story.

canadian_divx

i guess i will have to get a dell laptop from the US and see this for my self. its intresting to see that this would happen but i dont think that they could store enough offline info on a 512k rom. its very very small. but 1 byte for a letter but still.

a new project. hmmmm fun

Grandmaster

Nah it's been reported fake by sites such as Engadget.

Hmm, the second Big Brother thread in as many days, you guys sure are paranoid.

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Son Goku

Besides, even if something like this were found...it wouldn't be too difficult to cut a wire. No wire, no path for electrons to flow

Things like Palladium

http://www.epic.org/privacy/consumer...palladium.html

and TCPA

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

seem to be a more genuine concern then this.