On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 06:01:43PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: > > Well I'm more or less wondering if anyone has ever done it. I'm looking > > for experiences here. If I rewire my keyboard that's my business (I did > > buy it after all, it is not partially owned by any government, corporation, > > or > > other entity, not even god, it's mine and I shall do with it as I wish) and > > I > > suspect rewriting the keyboard mapping in the kernel isn't all that hard. > > This shouldn't be too hard, given suitable electronics (probably > something old and very heavy should be favoured if you really want to go > ahead) and some coding experience, but what's the point? Someone with a > little skill will soon figure out that two characters followed by > <enter> is most likely 'ls'; this quickly leads to discovering what ' ' > is, and so on. A simple substitution cipher isn't particularly hard to > defeat.
Oh yes I don't deny that, however I'm more or less trying to get around easter eggs in USB key loggers that break devices when they detect a certain key sequence, by either being the devices themselves that break, or overloading a device with high current if the monitoring device is a hub. Another thing they could do is try to contact a LAN device on the same USB bus and attempt to send a packet out to an Internet host. Surely later analysis of key logs can reconstruct UNIX commands if they were simply scrambled by rewiring the keyboard, but real-time investigation may not. > The suggestion above - laptop+ssh - was not a joke; it would actually do > most of what you want, without requiring you to disassemble an - > apparently - favoured keyboard with unpredictable results. Yeah, I already use my iBook as console (believe it or not the iBook consumes less power than my 17" LCD monitor which consumes ~150 Watts), but an external keyboard is very comfortable as I can put my feet up without putting the thing on my lap and the keys are spaced wider apart for more comfortable typing. Another bonus is that I know that I'm not wearing out the keys on the iBook, as I've actually lost/broken a few keys before, thanks to a servicing site in Toronto they replaced a "control" key with an "alt/option" key though. Only disadvantage having the macally on the iBook is when you want to break into DDB from console you have to use the native iBook keyboard (after entry into ddb surprisingly only the USB keyboard will work... :P) > Joachim regards, -peter -- Here my ticker tape .signature #### My name is Peter Philipp #### lynx -dump "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pufferfish&oldid=20768394"; | sed -n 131,136p #### So long and thanks for all the fish!!!
