Why are there keyloggers on Samsung laptops?
Found on CNet News on Tuesday, 29 March 2011
A security researcher says he discovered keylogging software installed on two brand-new Samsung laptops that could be used to monitor all activities on the computer remotely.
Eventually, a supervisor got on the phone and confirmed that Samsung put the software on the laptop to monitor machine performance "and to find out how it is being used."
The incident could incur the wrath of customers similar to the backlash that occurred after Sony BMG Music Entertainment sold copy-protected compact discs that installed so-called rootkit software hidden inside computers in 2005.
If those who decided to install the keylogger really thought it would be a great way to monitor performance and usage, then they should be fired for cluelessness, because they clearly don't know enough about technologies. If they are not clueless however, then they should be fired even more so.