This is one of the MANY reasons I refuse to use a wireless keyboard.
This Fake Phone Charger Is Actually Recording Every Key You Type
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January 14th, 2015 09:17 PM #1Administrator
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Fake Phone Charger Recording Every Key You Type
Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my Uncle Jack off a horse." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse."
There is never a good time for lazy writing!
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January 15th, 2015 05:43 AM #2Moderator
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Yeah. This is what happens with unencrypted wireless comms. (What a surprise, encrypted wireless keyboards are completely immune to this attack.) It's also a very good reason to never type passwords; sure, someone might know that I just went to github.com, but they won't know what my password is, because I didn't type it - either it was saved in my browser (the common case), or it was saved somewhere else, and I copied and pasted. Or better still, as much as possible should be done with SSH keys rather than passwords... good luck cracking those.
Originally Posted by Aristotle
But I'm still going to use a wired keyboard and mouse.The man who gets angry at the right things and with the right people, and in the right way and at the right time and for the right length of time, is commended. - Aristotle (but not the Aristotle you're thinking of)
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. - Albert Einstein
Mainly to keep a lid on the world's cat population. - Anon
I pressed the Ctrl key, but I'm still not in control!
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January 15th, 2015 09:15 AM #3Tree Frog
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That's pretty damn scary. I avoid wireless router anyway, but that's just one more reason not to.
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January 15th, 2015 11:05 AM #4Tree Frog
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Ok that is pretty messed up, I probably wouldn't ever notice anything like that plugged in at work. Not with how the outlets can't be seen in our cubes anyway.
The things people do, I do have a burning question, isn't this borderline illegal for privacy laws or something?
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January 15th, 2015 12:35 PM #5Moderator
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HIGHLY Originally Posted by Harutigus
If violence is not your last resort, you have failed to resort to enough of it.
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January 15th, 2015 04:57 PM #6Administrator
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[QUOTE=Harutigus;104274
The things people do, I do have a burning question, isn't this borderline illegal for privacy laws or something?[/QUOTE]
It is illegal to do it without the consent of the person you are recording.
But there are many legal uses of a device like this (even though probably nobody would use it for those purposes), and that's why it is legal to make this device.Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my Uncle Jack off a horse." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse."
There is never a good time for lazy writing!
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January 15th, 2015 06:41 PM #7Moderator
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Like so many things, it's not the device that's illegal, it's what you do with it. Though to be quite honest, I can't actually think of any legit uses for a remote keyboard monitor; other similar tools I know of legit uses for (eg packet sniffers at the network level are useful in debugging all sorts of problems), but not this one. The best I can come up with is a "keyboard fork" - send your keystrokes to two different computers, either KVM-switch style, or actually duplicating them - but that would mainly be a toy. Got any better ideas? Originally Posted by Aristotle
The man who gets angry at the right things and with the right people, and in the right way and at the right time and for the right length of time, is commended. - Aristotle (but not the Aristotle you're thinking of)
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. - Albert Einstein
Mainly to keep a lid on the world's cat population. - Anon
I pressed the Ctrl key, but I'm still not in control!
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January 15th, 2015 09:03 PM #8Moderator
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I used to play a certain MMO (We'll call it MoM) and I had two accounts and I would dual-box characters using a key-cloner software. Since it was all done on one computer, I didn't have to have hardware set up to accomplish the effect. If I had used two computers instead, something like this might would have been my solution to the issue. Yes, others exist and I'm sure you're going to bring them up in your followup, but this COULD have been used as a solution, and probably a simpler one for the less computer-absorbed. Originally Posted by Rosuav
Legal use, and that "toy" would have been part of one of he biggest games of all time.If violence is not your last resort, you have failed to resort to enough of it.
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January 15th, 2015 11:39 PM #9Administrator
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Monitoring device? Whenever you leave your computer, turn it on as a stealth way to know what someone does if they use your computer when you aren't around. Originally Posted by Rosuav
A little more stealth than a webcam.Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my Uncle Jack off a horse." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse."
There is never a good time for lazy writing!
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January 15th, 2015 11:56 PM #10Bullfrog
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Military/Three letter agency monitoring of a suspected individual. Either clear them or trigger a stronger reaction.
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