A security researcher discovered the flaw in November and reported it to Dell in January. The Dell System Detect program is meant to automatically detect customers’ products. It’s not clear if the fix has closed all avenues for abuse. A Dell spokesman said Tuesday the flaw has been fixed. The company says it doesn’t work with the government to make them potentially vulnerable to exploit its products or make them ‘potentially vulnerable’ to the company’s products or so-called ‘backdoors’ The fix is not verified as the source code is obscured.”]