MantisTek keyboard comes with a keylogger

[lionpants]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mantistek-gk2-collects-typed-keys,35850.html

When you install the configuration software for the MantisTek GK2 keyboard, it was found that it sends all keystrokes to a remote server hosted by Alibaba.

Pretty insane... not sure how this is even legal.

Anyone have one of these keyboards?

 

[Lite_Agent]

Pretty certain this isn't legal. Keyloggers are keyloggers. Though I guess that depends on whether the keyboard is available for purchase in a country where that crap isn't legal...

 

[noyram23]

That should be illegal unless probably users accept some terms when you install the app but then again I don't think that would hold up in court.

 

[FriedConsole]

There were a time when you needed driver disks. Now I just throw these in the trash. Got a disc with a cheap headset just this week. Nope.

 

[GiantHurtBall]

If I'm not mistaken Asus AI Suite software (their motherboard software that lets you "one click OC" and so on ) also tries to communicate with a server in taiwan every couple of seconds because it constantly searches for updates ...sure not as spooky as a keylogger but also weird. Either check for updates at launch or let me hit the "Search for Updates" button..dont search for updates ad nausea.

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

Farming data is where new revenue comes from.

Keep stories like this in mind as FB, Google, and Twitter sheepishly admit worse and worse lately.