Re: Cordless keyboard woes continue

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: "Michael J. Reeves, AA, ASc" <michaeljreeves () NoSPAM attbi com>

        Interesting...

        The assumption is that the keyboard is at fault.

        Since it is transmitting a radio signal, what is the
possibility that something in the transmitter's/recipient's room is
receiving and conducting the signal???

        Isn't there a "tv antenna AMPLIFIER" that plugs into the
wall-sockets and uses the internal wiring as an expanded
dish-antenna???

        That would be TOO easy....

InfoSec News wrote:
> http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=431326
>
> Jonathan Tisdall
> Aftenposten English Web Desk
> Friday 08 November 2002
>
> The Stavanger men who discovered that data input on a cordless
> keyboard also appeared on a neighbor's computer - supposedly far out
> of range in another building - have had their equipment replaced.
> Nothing has changed, and the manufacturer is worried.
>
> Per Arild Evjeberg and Per Erik Helle made headlines when they
> discovered that text Evjeberg was typing in was appearing in Helle's
> apartment, 150 meters and at least two walls away.  Product manager
> Tore A. Särelind of Hewlett-Packard Norway is concerned and said the
> firm is taking the problem "deadly seriously", Stavanger Aftenblad
> reports.

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