The Keyboard That Could Phone Home

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday August 8, 2006 @11:17AM from the blueprints-coming-to-a-torrent-near-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "University of Pennsylvania researchers have developed a keylogger they call the JitterBug that can modulate passwords or other information into normal traffic by adding imperceptible delays to keypresses as people use keyboard and network-intensive apps like telnet and remote desktop. The idea is that the delays in keypresses cause delays in packets, and data can be encoded in those delays. There's no software or extra network activity that the victim can see, but anyone who can see the traffic (even if it's encrypted) could grab the data. Here's the scary part: the researchers say that it could be manufactured into a keyboard, making these keyloggers widespread and virtually undetectable."

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Re:Could you get around this... by Anne_Nonymous · 2006-08-08 14:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Holy crap. Chaffe pockets suck. I had that issue with a pair of pants I got from The Gap last week and I *immediately* returned them. There's no reason for the consumer to put up with chaffe pockets in this day and age... er... packets... uh. Hm. Never mind.