You can never be too careful!!   ------------------------ Keith Smith On Thursday, November 7, 2013 9:54 AM, Nathan England wrote: I appreciate all of your thoughts who responded to my question about keyboards. Thank you! While I am positive I am on several watch lists already, I really don't believe anyone would particularly care about my usernames and passwords to online systems I use. But the thought occurred to me, and I like to entertain my tinfoil hat once in a while, so what if someone were to intercept the keyboard I purchase and place a keylogger in the firmware... Is it possible to detect a keylogger built in the firmware of a keyboard? Do all keyboards have firmware? What if the keyboard does not have macros or extra keys or special keys (beyond blank keycaps)? Could the USB cable itself be a keylogger? How would you go about detecting that? Seriously, I ask this tongue in cheek, but really am curious about the answer! Thanks! -- Regards, Nathan England ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NME Consulting Services http://www.nmecs.com Nathan England (nathan@nmecs.com) Systems Administration / Web Application Development Information Security Consulting (480) 559.9681 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss