Keyboards Followup / Paranoia

[Steve Phariss]

There is a real fear in military circles that backdoors (keyloggers and
worse) are embedded in at least some electronics that have access to
"data".  Since a lot (most) of our electronics have components that are
made in China I would not be surprised if that was the case, particularly
in laptops, and networking gear.


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Ted Gould <ted at gould.cx> wrote:

>  On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 09:54 -0700, Nathan England wrote:
>
> 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?
>
>
> Possible, unlikely, and for the most part undetectable.  One of the
> strongest arguments for two-factor authentication.  Then a key logger of
> any type isn't a compromised account.
>
> Ted
>
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