A Terroristic Divorce

I recall an old story about computers which once placed under surveillance software have a line of pixels across or down the screen which cannot be repaired using a new video driver.

Now my older systems must have this issue worked out and do not show the line, however from the date when the laptop was hacked the line has been there and visible. Actually it has varied from a single line of pixels to being double width and side by side lines. And all the while without any change to the video drivers.

After switching to LINUX it took a while longer for the line to appear, but when they hacked the LINUX system it indicated the problem in the boot log that something had changed.