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I thought something along these lines when it comes to peripherals, too, but don't these (mice and keyboards chiefly) communicate with PCs through a subset of t
by galcerte 5y ago
I thought something along these lines when it comes to peripherals, too, but don't these (mice and keyboards chiefly) communicate with PCs through a subset of the USB standard which only handles HID and nothing else?
Would any snooping be possible through an input device if it only did HID?
- matheusmoreira 5y ago> PCs through a subset of the USB standard which only handles HID and nothing else? Yes. Is the device truly limited to doing just that, though? No way to know. I don't know enough electronics to tear it down and analyze its parts, much less dump firmware and reverse engineer it. >Would any snooping be possible through an input device if it only did HID? For all I know, it could be silently storing every keystroke in some small memory module hidden somewhere.
- roywiggins 5y agoWe had that problem with PS/2 keyboards too, you can buy hardware keyloggers for those.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoAFAIK it wasn't possible for a PS/2 connected thing to suddenly present itself as some sort of drive, present a file on that, and then have that executed via autoload, or so.