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Wireless Keyboard "Encryption" Cracked

Posted by kdawson on from the hardly-needs-a-brute dept.

squidinkcalligraphy writes "While everyone is going on about wireless network security, it seems few have considered that increasingly common wireless keyboards can be vulnerable to eavesdropping. Particularly when the encryption is pitifully weak. All that's needed is a simple radio receiver, sound card, and a brute-force attack on the 8-bit encryption used. Passwords galore! Bluetooth, it seems, is safe for the moment."

2 of 232 comments (clear)

  1. Just Mess with the Listener! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's why I use ^H in my passwords ;)

  2. Re:Under my desk by EatHam · · Score: 5, Funny

    After I added a lager (1/4 or 1/8 wave) antenna to my receiver, I could type with my keyboard outside the house.
    After I added a lager to my receiver, I also could type from outside the house, but when I finally went back in, the receiver was belligerent, and insisted on driving the car though it was in no state to do so.