Compromising Wired Keyboards 277
Flavien writes "A team from the Security and Cryptography Laboratory (LASEC) in Lausanne, Switzerland, found 4 different ways to fully or partially recover keystrokes from wired keyboards at a distance up to 20 meters, even through walls. They tested 11 different wired keyboard models bought between 2001 and 2008 (PS/2, USB and laptop). They are all vulnerable to at least one of the 4 attacks. While more information on these attacks will be published soon, a short description with 2 videos is available."
No comment.. (Score:5, Funny)
I won't type what I think about that...
Dubious claim (Score:5, Funny)
Hmm... (Score:4, Funny)
I might have to extend my tinfoil hat to some kind of head-mounted lead telephone box.
If it only works on Wired keyboards... (Score:5, Funny)
...why should I worry? I work for BoingBoing.
Easier way to open the car... (Score:5, Funny)
Its much easier with a cricket ball. Just use it to break the window.
Re:Time for a Faraday cage? (Score:5, Funny)
Which is why you move to Pennsylvania and live among the Amish. Also, your crazy hacker beard will look a little less crazy.
Re:TEMPEST (Score:4, Funny)
The TEMPEST attack is nothing compared to the TEMPEST 2000 attack. Pew pew pew!
Re:Time for a Faraday cage? (Score:5, Funny)
The solution to this is simple. Have at least one computer outside the cage. If you have a teenage, even better. Cause nothing would drive those eavedroppers crazy than listening in on teenage conversations:
No way!
4sho!
LOLZ
idc. let's go w bff jill
Of course, this might be one of those cases where the solution is worse than the problem.
But did they test with a Model M? (Score:5, Funny)
As everyone should know, the IBM Model M is the One True Keyboard. Surely all of the steel plating inside that thing must be good for something! If all else fails, the relentless clicking while they listen to your bugged cube or house should drive them completely insane.
Even if it doesn't prevent snooping, you could still use the thing as a self-defense weapon when Mysterious Men From the Shadows come to capture you.
SirWired
Re:But did they test with a Model M? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Encryption (Score:2, Funny)
Holy smokes. Either a coincidence or you have been snooping my network, but that is exactly the beginning of my AES key...
Re:Easier way to open the car... (Score:5, Funny)
Its much easier with a cricket ball. Just use it to break the window.
That may be how the Brits do it, but using a bowling ball generally meets with smashing success.
Re:Cryptonomicomics (Score:3, Funny)
Or you could always get a second keyboard and a monkey. Combined together, they should generate enough random data to disguise what you are typing.
Re:TEMPEST (Score:1, Funny)
You know something, it would be a total bastard to get a virus for those kinds of keyboards.
Just imagine you're sitting there, working away, then BHAM, massive penis replaces all your key-set.
Or 5 goatse...s, goatsii? What would that be?
Re:Easier way to open the car... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:TEMPEST (Score:5, Funny)
Oh great, now you've given them the idea.
One goatse was bad enough :(
Re:Time for a Faraday cage? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Easier way to open the car... (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously, you'll have to turn the car upside-down if you're going to use a bowling ball. Some people would find that inconvenient.
Canadians seem to find it easy enough: they use curling stones. Maybe it's easier to flip a car on ice?
Re:Time for a Faraday cage? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, wow, I don't know how it happened but you're both right, and I'm not even in a cube!
Re:Encryption (Score:3, Funny)
I see you shelled out for the decoder monkey.
Re:TEMPEST (Score:4, Funny)
On second thought...I need to go wash my mind out with bleach now.
Re:Hmm... (Score:4, Funny)
Chief, don't you think we should use the Cone of Silence?
Re:Time for a Faraday cage? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:TEMPEST (Score:5, Funny)
When the first mass-transit-quality teleporter is installed in a major city, there will be a commenter on Slashdot, sneering at it: "This isn't news. They've been doing that at the quantum level for years."
Re:TEMPEST (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No comment.. (Score:3, Funny)
Great - now I have to tinfoil my house as well as my head!