HP laptops with keyloggers.

[Gingerbread Demon]

https://www.cnet.com/news/keylogger-discovered-on-some-hp-laptops-conextant/

Some HP models have shipped with an audio driver that includes as part of its code a keylogger that not only logs keystrokes for audio settings (why?) but all the other keys you might use as well. This isn't a good look for HP now is it?

They do have a fix for this on their website but to have had machines already ship out for sale in that condition I'd be a bit wary of them if I wanted to buy a new laptop.

 

[Space Coast]

I keep thinking HP couldn't make their George Foreman grill laptops any worse and they invariably prove me wrong. Bravo. The moment I get the money for it I'm garbage-canning my own HP.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

This is not good press at all.

 

[Santaman]

Read that, indeed bad press, on the other hand, it seems to have been an accident and no data has been collected, still, it shouldn't have happened and how the hell did that driver get past M$'s windows driver verification?

As for dumping the laptop, waste of a fine computer, install Linux on it, no more M$ spyware aka Windows 10 and no other spyware either.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Read that, indeed bad press, on the other hand, it seems to have been an accident and no data has been collected, still, it shouldn't have happened and how the hell did that driver get past M$'s windows driver verification?

As for dumping the laptop, waste of a fine computer, install Linux on it, no more M$ spyware aka Windows 10 and no other spyware either.

Does Linux do any kind of error reporting or calling home?

 

[Space Coast]

Read that, indeed bad press, on the other hand, it seems to have been an accident and no data has been collected, still, it shouldn't have happened and how the hell did that driver get past M$'s windows driver verification?

As for dumping the laptop, waste of a fine computer, install Linux on it, no more M$ spyware aka Windows 10 and no other spyware either.

My laptop is a $300 Best Buy display box that has seizures and visions of armageddon if it even thinks about running a AAA game made after 2013, the down key no longer works, there's a dead spot in the middle of the touchpad because the plastic used is just that terrible (and my greasy fingers don't help), and I don't have the patience for Linux. Also I like playing video games without an emulator.

 

[Santaman]

Does Linux do any kind of error reporting or calling home?

There is no home, Linux isn't made by one company, you've got the Linux kernel and around it the open source community builds their distro's so you have Ubuntu, Linux Mint, OpenSuse, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva and 300 other distro's with their own home, some programs like Firefox for example has a error reporting option which you can shut down and the only time there was a privacy issue it was this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(user_interface)#Privacy_controversy

Its not M$ spyware 10 which still sends 1966 data items to M$ spyware HQ even when everything is switched off...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

There is no home, Linux isn't made by one company, you've got the Linux kernel and around it the open source community builds their distro's so you have Ubuntu, Linux Mint, OpenSuse, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva and 300 other distro's with their own home, some programs like Firefox for example has a error reporting option which you can shut down and the only time there was a privacy issue it was this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(user_interface)#Privacy_controversy

Its not M$ spyware 10 which still sends 1966 data items to M$ spyware HQ even when everything is switched off...

I'd consider that for my small laptop if I could figure out a way to wipe the EMMC . So far that thing is stuck with windows.