From owner-freebsd-security Tue Mar 6 23:46:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C350237B71A for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 23:46:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from watchman@ludd.luth.se) Received: from d1o906.telia.com (d1o906.telia.com [195.252.36.241]) by mailc.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f277kQV19851; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 08:46:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from ludd.luth.se (h12n1fls20o906.telia.com [213.64.92.12]) by d1o906.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA20826; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 08:46:26 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3AA5E750.E50DDEDF@ludd.luth.se> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 08:46:24 +0100 From: Joachim =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6mbergson?= Organization: Acne X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Talkington Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] cordless keyboards References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hola! David Talkington wrote: > My apologies for the OT. After spotting a Logitech cordless keyboard > in use in one department that I maintain, I scoured the web looking > for information about the possibility of interception of its signals. > I've found nothing. > > Does anyone know how difficult it might be to sniff one of these > devices? Logitech marketing info claims that it's "digitally secure", > but without third-party information to back this up, my innately > paranoid nature remains cautious, given its 6-10 foot range (more than > enough to span cubicles or even apartments). I'm a very happy owner of a cordless mouse and keyboard combo (one of the best buys I've ever done). My board is not equipped with any dip switches. Instead (as reported by others) both the mouse, the keyboard and the base station has a "connect"-button that is supposed to synch/identify the devices with eachother. One odd thing to note. It seems that if you don't do this, the base station will accept signals from any mouse/keyboard. At my former job the managers sitting next to each other complained that they constantly stole the mouse pointer from each other(!). This was Logitech baords and mice. -- Cheers! Joachim - Alltid i harmonisk svängning --- FairLight ------ FairLight ------ FairLight ------ FairLight --- Joachim Strömbergson ASIC SoC designer, nice to CUTE animals Phone: +46(0)31 - 27 98 47 Web: http://www.ludd.luth.se/~watchman --------------- Spamfodder: regeringen@regeringen.se --------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message