There's a tiny red LED inside my keyboard. I can see it in the crack next to the INSERT key. Why is tht there? I never noticed it till today and have used this keyboard for years.
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17 years ago
There's a tiny red LED inside my keyboard. I can see it in the crack next to the INSERT key. Why is tht there? I never noticed it till today and have used this keyboard for years.
It's a component of the bug that the Department of Homeland Security installed when you were sleeping.
You shouldn't have told, now they will be looking for you.
Don't worry Homeland Security will take years to get back on that, they have more important things to check on like toothpaste.
It could just be a power LED on the board. I've seen them in computers, so having one in a keyboard isn't too unlikely. It can be helpful during troubleshooting.
dont laugh a spy agency once imbedded software in on line printers so they could see what the USSR was up to.
You're not safe from HS! Unless you are actually planning on an attack. Besides that, they have some weird shoe fetish.
There is software in copiers so the Secret Service knows what you are up to. (not making money). Your CD burner burns it's serial number on every CD you write. Your IP number gets tagged to evert pacfket you send on the internet. There ARE perople watching you
The sad part is your and my tax money is going for all this stuff and it has such a volume that any real information gathered is lost in all the volume and all that money is wasted.
Be glad that you don't get all the government you pay for.
Here's a Reddit link I followed today:
Big Brother indeed!
Jerry
Kind of makes you wonder what happens if you run the paper through about 5 different machines, doesn't it?
It takes them 5 times longer to find you...:)
Considering IPs, in the reality at SC.123988653 when you request a web page, your IP is not sent. Since the web server doesn't know where to send the page, it's sent to a post office in Kansas. You have to go there to see the page you requested, and to pay a fee for using their equipment.
You're completely safe if you're a highly-paid terrorist-for-hire. It's only the innocent who have something to worry about.
OK, a few dumb criminals too. Just not the well-organized ones.
Or makes it five times easier to figure out who you based on who had access to five machines instead of just one.
I guess the lesson is, if you are writing something you want to hide, use a printer cobbled up from an assortment of junk parts that can't be traced back to you (dumpster treasures collected over time) then immediately destroy it scattering the parts to the wind.
I'm in contact with you now, and the light should be flashing 3 longs and 2 shorts, repeatedly. Let me know if that is what it is doing. If so, everything is ok.
Let me know what you would like the light to do and I'll set it up.
Or just buy your printer cash. :)
Try to find a store without video cameras. It won't be easy, particulary an electronics store.
There are those who would like to see cash become illegal.
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