Beware the Haunted Cordless keyboard

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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Re:Not quite as fun as VNC

[Zeinfeld]

Of course, don't forget to tell them that it could be Bill Gates fucking with their computer - he's mad that they diden't forward the Windows 95 Beta email. He really wanted to give them $1000 and he's pissed his knickers.

UNIX has had that feature for years. Microsoft is only playing catchup here.

Under X11 the security scheme was practically non-existant and easily subverted. So you could capture someone else's screen.

Of course if someone knows that wireless keyboards interfere you can use the fact to provide bogus information, "Re the takeover of Apple, talked to Bill today and he says its a go", "Re: 2nd Ammendment, It's all arranged we will start the gun collection program next week", "Newt is nervous about going after Clinton for adultery since he is having an affair of his own", etc.

Notepad would be much less credible than mail.