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The Keyboard That Could Phone Home

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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  1. Re:Could you get around this... by Anne_Nonymous · · 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.

  2. Re:The Keyboard That Could Phone Home by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nice useless content-free fucking me-too post to PUSH YOUR FUCKING SPAM WHORING email address and username, you scummy blob of slime mold.

    Fuck you, you spam mongering, drool slobbering piece of sub-human shit. Maybe if you weren't a dickless asshole, you wouldn't be comsuming and pushing your fucking snake oil on others.

    I sincerely hope you die in extreme excruciating pain, alone.

    In the dark.

    Of crotch-rot or rectal cancer.

  3. Re:The Keyboard That Could Phone Home by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Time for your medication - my fist up your ass.

    Are you still here? Fuck off and die, already.

    Now be a good little turd and go put a bullet in your brain.