On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 07:21:33PM +0200, Peter Philipp wrote: > On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 09:38:21AM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: > > have to look at all the other possibilities as well. A small audio bug > > can be enough to pick up key clicks, and some interesting work has been > > done in reconstructing input based on inter-key timing. The better > > typist you are, the better it works. That's one small example. What > > Would mixing keyboard noises at random into your music / external speaker > at random be a useful countermeasure against that?
Sounds like a good research topic, but I suspect it would foil attempts in the short run only. > Pretend you're travelling with a zaurus like device and you take an external > USB keyboard with you including a USB hub and shitloads of little USB devices > that you can then use in the hotel room or hostel common room (I've actually > seen a Swede have such a setup at a hostel in Ottawa). If you're in a > foreign country and all of a sudden the USB hub blows up. You go out to buy > a new one at the nearest computer store and they have bugged equipment you're > up shits creek. Ok, this is certainly a different concern than the one I addressed. Protecting yourself from equipment bugged prior to purchase? Hmm... -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
