> At 09:57 PM 6/18/00 -0400, Dave Emery wrote:
> > One hopes that the US Customs Service and the other federal
> >agencies involved in enforcing Title III of the Omnibus Safe Streets and
> >Crime Control Act of 1968 (18 USC 2518) covering devices "primarily
> >useful for the serreptitious interception of wire, oral or electronic
> >communications" (which was originally aimed at bugs and similar
> >listening devices) learns of these things and bans them from sale to the
> >public
What I really want is a keyboard with a slight variation -- not a
KeyGhost but a KeySpook. It's a tamper-evident keyboard with a
built-in password-protected crypto engine, and a corresponding
driver for the OS. If someone taps your keyboard cable, all they'll
get is noise. Besides, this thing generates its own cover traffic, so you
can easily overrun the KeyGhost's buffer, or the bandwidth of a
low-power transmitter. Not to mention that filling the transmitter's
buffer ensures that it will have to transmit frequently, making it
more easily detectable.
Banning stuff just provides a false sense of security, because it lets
Compaq, Dell, and Micron get away with not providing this
equipment to the masses. And it supports the presumption of guilt
of those who do try to protect themselves from this kind of wiretap.
