percivalNS1.DEVNULL.NL wrote:

> Subject: wireless keyboards
> I was wondering, is it possible to sniff keystrokes on wireless keyboards and such? How do we approach?

In the 2000 edition of my security class http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~crispin/ one of my students (Mark
Jacobson) did his term project on how to hijack an IR mouse. The threat scenario is exectives sitting in
airport lounges with their laptops. Now along comes a bad guy with a palm pilot. The pilot beams to the
IR port on the back of the laptop, attaches itself as an IR PnP mouse, and starts doing nefarious things.

He never actually got it to work, but that was because OGI semester are only 11 weeks long, and the
IR vendors wouldn't give him driver details. Someone with more time, determination, or access to device
specs could easily complete this project, and make it possible to turn PDAs into highly portable :-)
outboard laptop mouse devices.

Crispin

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Crispin Cowan, Ph.D.
Chief Research Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com
Security Hardened Linux Distribution:                http://immunix.org

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