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Conexant's MicTray64.exe is installed with the Conexant audio driver
package and registered as a Microsoft Scheduled Task to run after each
user login. The program monitors all keystrokes made by the user to
capture and react to functions such as microphone mute/unmute
keys/hotkeys. Monitoring of keystrokes is added by implementing a low-
level keyboard input hook [1] function that is installed by calling
SetwindowsHookEx().
In addition to the handling of hotkey/function key strokes, all key-
scancode information [2] is written into a logfile in a world-readable
path (C:\Users\Public\MicTray.log). If the logfile does not exist or
the setting is not yet available in Windows registry, all keystrokes
are passed to the OutputDebugString API, which enables any process in
the current user-context to capture keystrokes without exposing
malicious behavior. Any framework and process with access to the
MapViewOfFile API should be able to silently capture sensitive data by
capturing the user's keystrokes.
No need to install a key logger. It is already there.
[EDIT 2017-05-15; for the sake of completeness]
HP has released updated drivers: HPSBGN03558 rev.1 - Conexant HD Audio Driver Local Debug Log | HP® Customer Support[^]
Quote: A potential security vulnerability caused by a local debugging capability that was not disabled prior to product launch has been identified with certain versions of Conexant HD Audio Drivers on HP products. HP has no access to customer data as a result of this issue.
[/EDIT]
modified 15-May-17 6:56am.
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That's what you get for leaving that #ifdef there.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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HP again.
Remember BackWeb some years ago, installed with printer drivers?
Mean $%^&-in company.
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I remember Sony laptops came all out, pre-installed with a rootkit. These companies just care about one thing: profit.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: I remember Sony laptops came all out, pre-installed with a rootkit
... And if you didn't have a sony laptop, all you had to do was insert a sony movie DVD, to get the same great service.
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Quote: all key-
scancode information [2] is written into a logfile in a world-readable path (C:\Users\Public\MicTray.log)
So just create a dummy user, create the path and file, and lock it off from other users.
Beating stupid people doesn't require a rocket surgeon.
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Today at Build 2017, Microsoft unveiled many cool new technologies, but there was one particular announcement that truly touched the hearts of many in attendance. Called "Emma," it is a wrist wearable that can help people suffering with Parkinson's disease.
Simply amazing.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Well it's not the only treatment for Parkinsons that no one has a clue why it works; but the risk of complications of that seems likely to be a few orders of magnitude lower than implanting[^] an electrode generating a sin wave at IIRC a few hundred hertz in your brain.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Quote: Remarkably, how it works isn't 100 percent known.
Fer feck's sake.
If they don't know how it works, they should either find out or bury the fecker.
Either that or wait for the lawsuits to pile up, when people start dying of strokes.
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This project (which at the time was called “Project Florence”) first turned into DocumentDB, Azure’s NoSQL database service, which launched in 2015 and is now morphing into Cosmos DB. Because data wants to be stored as JSON graphs?
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No data is born relational
Then the data is meaningless. Data only has meaning in relationship to other data. A better statement would be:
Data is born with the potential of unknown relationships.
That is what the power of a NoSQL and Graph DB is all about, putting data into relationship with things that you didn't anticipate.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Data exist, understandings emerge (from relationships or aggregation functions or MapReduce)
I guess NoSQL and Graph DB and so on allow us to delay the modelling rather than constraining the data by the up front designed model.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: I guess NoSQL and Graph DB and so on allow us to delay the modelling rather than constraining the data by the up front designed model.
Having played with MongoDB and dynamic relationship building, it is easier, but you still need some kind of metadata to inform the application of new relationships, but that often involves more metadata that describes the semantics so that relationships can be created automatically based on the meaning of the data. So it really just pushes the problem around.
The truly lazy programmer simply implement the relationships in code.  Which defeats the whole purpose, IMO. Oh, but wait, it's coded in scripted languages, so the argument can be made that the business logic is easily modified even at runtime.
Contrast that with the truly skilled programmer that will either modify the SQL schema on the fly or code the relationships in metadata such that the relationships can be discovered in the schema (whether directly in the SQL schema or in some schema-metadata, either still using SQL or NoSQL) and the program can adapt dynamically without changing the code. 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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So if they include it in their effluent interface, will it automatically resolve your tables to turd normal?
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NetsBlox is a visual programming language and cloud-based environment that enables novice programmers to create networked programs. Coding using the jigsaw puzzle metaphor
I'm sure all the skills you learn here will apply to every other programming language.
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Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have recently developed a system that aims to bridge the two techniques: C-LEARN, which allows noncoders to teach robots a range of tasks simply by providing some information about how objects are typically manipulated and then showing the robot a single demo of the task. And that's how little robots are made
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When one robot goes haywire, all the robots learn to go haywire.
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And they think that this will replace copy & paste?!?
Bwah-hah-hah-hah-haaaa!!!
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Anyone with a color printer knows that selling replacement ink cartridges is the quickest way to become a millionaire. But what if your printer never needed a single drop of ink to produce color images at impossibly high resolutions? Instead, it's the paper that costs a fortune
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No Laser Printer in the history of Laser Printers has ever used a drop of ink.
They use toner. 
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Hmm.
A dot-matrix CD burner!
I'll wait for the Chinese rip-off.
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Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said Wednesday tech developers have a responsibility to prevent a dystopian "1984" future as the US technology titan unveiled a fresh initiative to bring artificial intelligence into the mainstream. In related news: look at all the telemetry data in Win10! Tell everything to Cortana and she'll 'help'!
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"Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Think, McFly, think..." We're already past 1984 in many regards, Satya. Step down from your high cloud (no pun intended).
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So a guy who has proven himself to be completely clueless regarding people's needs postulates about people's needs?
Intently listening, me am not.
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