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."

Comments

Headache

[Foobar of Borg]

Oh, fuck it! At this point I'm willing to go back to using a typewriter and an abacus (or at least a completely non-internet connected computer). Let me know when you geeks finally get all this "look I can pwn you better than you can pwn me!" infantile bullshit out of the way.

And when I'm on slashdot and I get headache pain, I take Sanhedrin, the headache medicine (those of you old enough will get the joke).