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Beware the Haunted Cordless keyboard

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.

dr. greenthumb writes "The norwegian newspaper Aftenposten reports about an incident where a computer suddenly seemed to develop a life of its own. A game which the user could not remember using that day suddenly appeared on the screen. When he went over to shut it off the screen displayed a message asking him if he "really wanted to delete this file?" His computer was receiving keystrokes from another computer (with the same type of wireless keyboard) 150 metres away! Check out the full story and a follow-up, where experts warns against using wireless keyboards." /me plans to destroy Hemos' sanity...

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  1. try a link by SHEENmaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    just use:

    <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/1 73944">http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/ 173944</a>

    Remember to set style to "HTML Formatted" and but a <br> tag at the end of each line.

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