Compromising Wired Keyboards

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 20, 2008 @01:30AM from the not-a-lot-of-substance-here dept.

Flavien writes "A team from the Security and Cryptography Laboratory (LASEC) in Lausanne, Switzerland, found 4 different ways to fully or partially recover keystrokes from wired keyboards at a distance up to 20 meters, even through walls. They tested 11 different wired keyboard models bought between 2001 and 2008 (PS/2, USB and laptop). They are all vulnerable to at least one of the 4 attacks. While more information on these attacks will be published soon, a short description with 2 videos is available."

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Re:Dubious claim by erayd · 2008-10-20 01:54 · Score: 0, Redundant

step 5: ??? step 6: profit!!!

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Forget world peace, bring on -1 pointless
Truecrypt refuses to deal with this.... by Anonymous Coward · 2008-10-20 02:08 · Score: 0, Redundant

The developer of truecrypt (hard drive encryption software) has been made aware of these issues in the past and so far has refused to include any kind of graphical keyboard interface in the software. It is extremely frustrating when you have a problem like this staring you in the face and they refuse to deal with it.