Fake Phone Charger Recording Every Key You Type

[Frobozz]

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?

The device is illegal in most states and is illegal under US federal law.

[Frobozz]

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.

A little more stealth than a webcam.

I just defended a dude in Fed Court in Toledo where he put web cams in each office in his business. He never notified any of his employees that there were cameras, they were hidden in the vents, and eventually someone found out.

We got him down from the 218 month range to a sentence of 3 months. Privacy laws are brutally prosecuted, which I find highly ironic.

[Rosuav]

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.

A little more stealth than a webcam.

True, though personally I'd rather use software for that. Let me rephrase: I can't think of any use for this that is legitimate, useful, AND can't be done better in software. That's not to say there aren't any, of course, but if it weren't for illegal uses, this would be an incredibly niche tool - so niche that probably it wouldn't be manufactured, just constructed by individuals (probably by buying another keyboard and nicking components out of its receiver, and wiring them up to an RPi or something). This thing exists to violate privacy.

[Aristotle]

I just defended a dude in Fed Court in Toledo where he put web cams in each office in his business. He never notified any of his employees that there were cameras, they were hidden in the vents, and eventually someone found out.

We got him down from the 218 month range to a sentence of 3 months. Privacy laws are brutally prosecuted, which I find highly ironic.

I remember studying this way back when. If I recall, privacy laws vary significantly state to state.

For example, in some states, only one party to a phone conversation needs to consent to the call being recorded, whereas in other states, all parties to the phone conversation need to consent. Things like that.

And what about nanny cams? Obviously they are recording without the nanny's consent/knowledge.