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Requiring physical access to the keyboard by the attacker first, makes this less impactful. With physical access the they keyboard/computer, they could plant a
by blinky1456 7y ago
Requiring physical access to the keyboard by the attacker first, makes this less impactful.
With physical access the they keyboard/computer, they could plant any other number of devices/bugs or extract information.
- molticrystal 7y agoOnce you are at physical access, you can go to town. Optical surveillance and even recording the sound of the keys being stroked to calibrate[0] an acoustic cryptoanalysis algorithm.[1] [0] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/09/snooping_on_tex.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/09/snooping_on_t... [new algorithms require less time] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_cryptanalysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_cryptanalysis
- DEADBEEFC0FFEE 7y agoPhysical access road wireless keyboard, even if the system is physically secured is different. Typing some characters and recording the traffic, on a logged out computer, that totally possible and a lot less suspicious.