just lined the sides of the lid of my laptop with velcro, and stapled the other end to cloth to fold over the keyboard while the lid is lowered. this allows for safer typing in public places. seems to work really well, but waiting on a friend to come over for a real test. see pic (remember to use dispvm!)
theres still audio and keyboard timing attacks. going to try playing randomly generated keyboard noises to turn on while typing and see if this can fool a directional mic. if so, that should cover cellphones mics and the like, but not for example a bugged hotel room. we would need qubes on a small device you can slide fingers around quietly. personally, i find it easy to use my phone under my t-shirt or blanket (in a hotel room) or just covering half the screen with fingers. only did a couple times because i dont believe anyones after, or that ive ever been in a bugged hotel room. but, i know its a known issue in china. if that tablet liberm is selling runs qubes, problem solved :) i think for most of us, the most sensitive thing we type is the login passphrase, and the disk encryption passphras(es) when booting (two if you also use on disk fde) so, there should be little exposure to begin with, especially if you change the login password often enough. has anyone here experimented with bluetooth locks? it seems like a lot of extra scary code to run in dom0, but i like the idea of auto shutdown if device loses range. or maybe after a timeout period of some trigger?thats another discussion. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/58865b4e-1810-4e45-87e3-e387a4d97b57%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
