Things like this just really make me want to build a Faraday cage around the server room I put in... tin foil just isn't good enough anymore. Seriously though, this could be trivially defeated with a fancy keyboard that could use a one-time pad synchronized to a teathered computer, right?  Without having RTFA, I assume the scancodes are being read while sent over the unshielded cables? <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Stanley C. Mortel <<a href="mailto:mortel@cyber-nos.com">mortel@cyber-nos.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I think I'll just go back to paper and pencil !!!!! >  --Researchers Read Electromagnetic Emanations From Wired Keyboards >(October 20 &  22, 2008) >Swiss researchers have demonstrated that keystrokes from wired keyboards >can be read remotely from distances of up to 20 meters.  The keyboards >emit electromagnetic waves.  The researchers at Security and >Cryptography Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne have >described four different methods of eavesdropping on keystrokes on wired >keyboards. ><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10072967-83.html?tag=mncol;title" target="_blank">http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10072967-83.html?tag=mncol;title</a> ><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/20/keyboard_sniffing_attack/" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/20/keyboard_sniffing_attack/</a> > >************************************************************************* **************************** Stan Mortel <a href="mailto:mortel@cyber-nos.com">mortel@cyber-nos.com</a> **************************** _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div>