Beware: your keyboard may be tattling on your typing

Security researchers in Switzerland have found four different ways of
snooping in on the signals that get sent down the wire from a keyboard
to the computer it's controlling, none of which require access to the
hardware.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-beware-your-keyboard-may-b
e-tattling-on-your-typing.html

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Basically, what they're telling you is that it's now possible for
someone to 'read' what you're typing on your keyboard without your
knowledge from up to 20m away!! This only used to be a problem for
wireless keyboards but this is a problem no matter what keyboard you're
using (wireless, USB, PS/2 or even a laptop keyboard!)

On the plus side, the more of these security holes get exposed, the more
that get fixed. The question is whether they get fixed (and whether
those fixes get implemented) before a hacker takes advantage.

Do you live next door to propeller-heads? I hope you're friendly with
'em...