DELL
You have a point that the driver in the operating system may be written by Synaptics as well.
However, I don't see anything under the Synaptics name when I did a registry search or listed in the Windows Device Manager.
According to another researcher, HP did not remove the keylogger in their newer version after the Audio driver fiasco and could be enabled in the registry just like this new keylogging incident.
(Or did I not read the researchers Twitter correctly? It was confusing.)
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/66502/hacking/keylogger-hp-driver.html
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