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Wireless keyboards easily cracked (hackaday.com)
6 points by nickb on Dec 3, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



That's got to be the easiest way of getting passwords. Forget keyloggers, the keyboard broadcasts everything.

Which is why I always use a wired keyboard. Any examples of wireless keyboards that use a better protocol? E.g. plug it in, set up an x.509 cert, then you can unplug it; and have it pad out keystrokes (a bit like chaffing and winnowing, or steganography) so an eavesdropper can't tell the length of what you're typing.




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