Re: [OT] Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:39:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Would you notice a hardware key-capture dongle inserted between your
> keyboard and PC? Even were I to use OpenBSD and pervasive
> encryption, I wouldn't notice such a device, since I never look
> behind my PC. Front-mounted ieee1394 and USB ports have eliminated
> the need.
>
> (Hmmm, I bet that front-mounted ports are a secret mandate from the
> gov't to ensure that people don't look behind their computers
> anymore...)
Not the same thing, exactly, but I've been somewhat alarmed to see
the tellers at a local bank typing away on wireless keyboards, and
this in a student union building with laptops all over the place.
I wonder how feasible (or trivial?) it would be to capture some of
those keystrokes?
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Ken Irving, fnkci+debianuser@uaf.edu
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