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User discovers that Samsung is pre-loading keyloggers on its laptop computers.
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03-30-2011, 05:17 PM
http://www.networkworld.com/community/bl...ts-laptops
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03-30-2011, 05:21 PM
I don't think a company like Samsung would do this. On another note, how would they benefit from this? They're a multi-million dollar company.
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03-30-2011, 06:30 PM
(03-30-2011, 05:21 PM)Deltron Wrote: I don't think a company like Samsung would do this. On another note, how would they benefit from this? They're a multi-million dollar company.

Sell the information of users searching habits to advertisers? idk but there is definetly profit in this for them or why else would they do it...
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03-30-2011, 06:56 PM
(03-30-2011, 06:30 PM)LancerImpact Wrote: Sell the information of users searching habits to advertisers? idk but there is definetly profit in this for them or why else would they do it...

The question is why would they do it?

They earn roughly $3.5 billion a year.
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03-31-2011, 03:44 PM (This post was last modified: 03-31-2011, 03:46 PM by Epicly.)
I heard about this on Engadget, it was all false anyways.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/31/samsu...25-privac/
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