Re: Wireless mouse basestation transmitting wired keystrokes ?
- From: Chad Perrin <perrin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 13:01:00 -0600
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 04:24:26PM -0500, Sergio Castro wrote:
All sorts of electromagnetic emissions can be intercepted straight from
devices.
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEMPEST
While true, that doesn't really answer the question. The question was
whether the base unit for a wireless mouse/keyboard combination would
transmit keystrokes from a "wired" keyboard.
The answer might be "it depends", but unless there's something actually
wrong with the way the base unit's controlling software was designed,
this probably doesn't actually happen. No reason for a wireless keyboard
base unit to broadcast keystroke data occurs to me at all, other than
design flaws. To be certain, however, I guess you'd have to use an RF
receiver (assuming it's an RF wireless base unit) to capture any
emissions and examine them for the presence of keystroke data.
I tend to think it would be more likely that using a wireless keyboard
might involve broadcast of (unencrypted) keystroke data, since wireless
peripheral device manufacturers probably don't put nearly enough effort
into making sure your system is secure. It is for this reason that,
while I may use a wireless mouse with a system where I'll be entering
passwords, I will *not* use a wireless keyboard with such a system at
this time.
OP is below:
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Asunto: Wireless mouse basestation transmitting wired keystrokes ?
I taked to a guy who were claiming that if you have a wireless mouse, with a
basestation that also is able to use a wireless keyboard. Then if a wired
keyboard is used instead, there is a risk for the basestation to transmit
the keystroke onto the wireless, as some kind of acknowledge to the
non-existing keyboard.
I'm not sure this is the right list to ask this, but am very interested in a
answer to this claim. Does anybody know if this is true or false ?
Thanks, Peter
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