<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">You can never be too careful!!<br><div><span><br></span></div><div> </div><div>------------------------<br>Keith Smith</div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, November 7, 2013 9:54 AM, Nathan England <nathan@nmecs.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>I appreciate all of your thoughts who responded to my question about <br>keyboards. Thank you!<br><br>While I am positive I am on several watch lists already, I really don't <br>believe anyone
would particularly care about my usernames and passwords <br>to online systems I use. But the thought occurred to me, and I like to <br>entertain my tinfoil hat once in a while, so what if someone were to <br>intercept the keyboard I purchase and place a keylogger in the firmware...<br><br>Is it possible to detect a keylogger built in the firmware of a <br>keyboard? Do all keyboards have firmware? What if the keyboard does not <br>have macros or extra keys or special keys (beyond blank keycaps)? Could <br>the USB cable itself be a keylogger?<br><br>How would you go about detecting that?<br><br>Seriously, I ask this tongue in cheek, but really am curious about the <br>answer! Thanks!<br><br>-- <br>Regards,<br><br>Nathan England<br><br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>NME Consulting Services <a href="http://www.nmecs.com/" target="_blank">http://www.nmecs.com</a><br>Nathan England (<a ymailto="mailto:nathan@nmecs.com"
href="mailto:nathan@nmecs.com">nathan@nmecs.com</a>)<br>Systems Administration / Web Application Development<br>Information Security Consulting<br>(480) 559.9681<br><br>---------------------------------------------------<br>PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a ymailto="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br><a href="http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>