Most security officers know better than to use wireless keyboards around the office, although for some reason there are still many out there. Now we are hearing that today's off-the-shelf snooping equipment is sufficient to "listen" in on EM radiations from wired keyboards from 20 feet away. This was bound to happen in the mainstream sooner or later. Some government and military agencies have been taking precautions for this threat, as well as CRT monitor radiations for several years now.
Although it is likely that these types of attacks are still a ways off from being highly effective, one can say that this increases the risk of user passwords being compromised. This further strengthens the need for data encryption as new ways to steal data continue to appear. Dark Matter believes that encryption devices should allow multiple users to seed the passwords for any given data field, and be able to do so from separate locations thus defeating anyone's ability to remotely 'listen' in as they type in their encryption keys.
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Stealing passwords from my keyboard cable? Wow. Although, I have already come up with a solution for this.
Two words: scramble pad.
We could add this to the Dark Matter line-up and make millions selling them to the government.
Ah... another $1 million idea that I don't have time to implement... oh well!
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