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Can't wait for the consumer keyboard that saves everything that was typed to it and/or executes things on its own
by tavavex 3y ago
Can't wait for the consumer keyboard that saves everything that was typed to it and/or executes things on its own
- fragmede 3y agousb keyloggers have existed since just after USB came out, and badusb is totally a thing.
- tavavex 3y agoThey have, but all of them are "personalized" attacks - as in, a malicious person needs to install these on specifically your computer, without your knowledge. What I was talking about is some kind of device from some noname Chinese manufacturer that presents as harmless, but actually sends off some additional data back home
- parker_mountain 3y agoYeah, it was sold to schools in the 90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart
- tavavex 3y agoOh yeah, I remember reading about the AlphaSmart somewhere! Though it is quite different from an ordinary-keyboard-looking spying device that I tried to describe in my original comment. The AlphaSmart feels like more of a digital typewriter that just had a really primitive data transfer method