Keyboards not safe to use !!!

[Abarbarian]

Keyboards "are not safe to transmit sensitive information," they wrote in an entry on the school's Web site. "No doubt that our attacks can be significantly improved since we used relatively inexpensive equipment."

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscent...nna_researchers_log_keystrokes_from_afar.html

Looks like its back to paper and invisible ink then

 

[Ian]

Keyboards "are not safe to transmit sensitive information," they wrote in an entry on the school's Web site. "No doubt that our attacks can be significantly improved since we used relatively inexpensive equipment."

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscent...nna_researchers_log_keystrokes_from_afar.html

Looks like its back to paper and invisible ink then

That's quite clever, even if a bit creepy They can do this with the EM emissions from monitor cables too.

Just turn your room into a Faraday cage or buy lots of tinfoil

 

[murdoch]

or buy lots of tinfoil

Friend did that a few years ago, last heard of screaming as they took him away to a padded cell!!!
Seems he thought people were after him, i have people after me too, mostly ex-wifes.

 

[Me__2001]

i wonder if it works with a desktop PC or with the laptop plugged in?

i remember reading about wireless keyboards being insecure as they only use a 1 or 2bit encryption so the delay between keystroke and seeing it on the screen was almost instant

 

[Abarbarian]

The researchers tested 11 different wired keyboard models produced between 2001 and 2008, including some with USB (Universal Serial Bus) connectors and keyboards embedded in laptops. All were vulnerable to one of four surveillance methods.

Looks like it is any sort of keyboard.

By gum linning a room with silver foil don't half make it hot.

 

[Urmas]

By gum linning a room with silver foil don't half make it hot.

Have I got the thing just for you:

Tinfoil Hat Linux

 

[Abarbarian]

 

[Waynos_Face]

If you have a gap in the curtain then the light that leaks out of that gap contains the image on your screen, this can be rebuilt on another monitor as far as 300m away.

Google GCHQ very clever.

 

[Urmas]

Google GCHQ very clever -- Tinfoil Hat Linux ingenious:

[font=arial, sans-serif, hevletica][size=-1]After clicking yes, your Operating System becomes a paranoid box, with a grey screen that cannot be pictured with a digital camera (see example below). [/size][/font]

 

[Abarbarian]

I can see writing on the screen in your pic.

 

[Urmas]

I can see writing on the screen in your pic.

That's OK as long as you have a valid licence to spill.