A volume control monitoring app in HP laptops, according to this, monitors *all* keystrokes to see if the volume up/down buttons are pressed, and keeps an unencrypted plaintext log file of every keystroke, *and* has an API to hand over data realtime.
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@Mycroft what is with this odd bad drawing showing up everywhere?

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@Nikon It's apparently one of the "What the h*ck is wrong with you people?" meme images, from a real picture of Jackie Chan that I did not know the source of.

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