>>The hardware scamps are at it again:
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>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/13/this_10_phone_charger_will_wirelessly_keylog_your_boss/
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>>Open source, full schematics, ... (of course)
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>>Just in case you can't decide between wired and wireless keyboards ;-)
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>Answering from tripwire mansion, there are keyloggers for most wired devices as well, probably most of them in some USB form.
>Wireless keyboards and mice never made sense for me, as they add unneccessary dependencies while widening the zone in need to be secure to physical access.
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>To be honest, while I love my tablet, I wish there was a way to have it access the net through a charging wire, so I could close down wireless most of the time.
>But power over LAN had too stiff cables and I only have seen USB-Lan adapters...

Argh. Even my land line phone works through WLAN nowadays (Fritz!Box feature, so I need my smartphone only) Don't ask for the tablet etc. used by the kids.

And I love my desktop without the kb/mouse cables. It's bluetooth and it runs like a month with a set of AA Cells.

To track the keyboard. Well this is all funny. If you are a real target your MB will find a new hardware attached one day. No traces left to the door. Or the boss simply will force the admin to install apropriate software.

Also I remember to read an article on heise.de about using the radiation from keyboard circuite board / wire to read the keystrokes. No need to deal with the wireless stuff.

The only way to avoid this is the use of paper and pen - but I guess a laser mic might pick up the scratching noises and after a while of signal translation it will be possible to log as you write.

:)
Lutz