Re: recorded key clicks a security risk?

[Gregory Hicks <ghicks () cadence com>]

> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:17:03 -0500
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
> From: "Wayne J. Hauber" <wjhauber () iastate edu>
> Subject: [funsec] recorded key clicks a security risk?
>
> Does this article seem plausible? If so, it adds a new security risk 
> that I had never considered.

Plausible?  Depends on your threat model.  (You *DO* have one, right?)

The attack has been around since the early '60s...  Was reputedly
developed by the Soviets, but I think I read somewhere that the Brits
also used something similar against the Nazis.  (but I could be wrong -
see .sig)

Things like this is why there are Technical Security Countermeasure
people...  And why they do 'sweeps' looking to detect, nullify, and
isolate eavesdropping devices, wiretaps, bugging devices, technical
surveillance penetrations, technical surveillance hazards, and physical
security weaknesses. This also includes bug detection, bug sweep, and
wiretap detection services.

Regards,
Gregory Hicks

> http://www.securityfocus.net/news/11318

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