This is a cool idea for getting even more marketing info on all us internet users. Include info gathering code in the driver for the NIC or wireless card, basically put spyware in the driver. Lexmark already put some on their installation CD for one of their printers (maybe more, just not detected yet) that phones home to Lexmark and reports on your printing.

Maybe the company wants info on what you are doing on their card. Maybe the mafia might lean on some driver developers and get them to put in a little piece of code to get your passwords, and then the developers family gets to live.

Very interesting possibility. Could be done in binary. Then woe unto the company found to be doing this.



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