On 6/06/11 2:53 PM, Marsh Ray wrote:
Come on. There are people in tall glass buildings that will be using this keyboard to enter passwords that manage accounts containing millions of dollars on a regular basis. And there's a very high practical limit on the gain of the antenna that could be aimed directly at them from an office on the same floor across the street.
People in tall glass buildings should learn not to throw electronic stones then.... It's easy, just use a laptop w/ethernet. No wireless, no keyboard loggers. Corporates know how to issue laptops.
On the defense side, the agencies that are experienced at looking at signals also have the mission of protecting the US government itself. Surely they realize it's impractical to keep every off-the-shelf keyboard out of every marginally sensitive location.
Then, the rest of society has to pay for their incompetence? Anyone know what the price of a DoD-secured keyboard is :)
Check this out: http://www.spi.dod.mil/liposeFAQ.htm Someone please tell them they ought to require HTTPS for this kind of download.
"To access any of our SSL-protected web pages, you will need to authorize your browser to trust either our certificate, or (better choice) the US Government's DoD Root CA-2 (which vouches for the root of our certificate chain)."
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