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Vulnerable keyboards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Leichter)
Tue Aug 4 16:57:39 2009
From: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
To: Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 07:24:26 -0400
A couple of weeks ago, Apple distributed a firmware update for their
keyboards - the standalone ones, not the ones built into laptops. I
remarked at the time (perhaps on this list?) that given a way for
Apple to update the firmware ... was there a way for others with
malicious intent? Well ... yes. http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/CHEN/BHUSA09-Chen-RevAppleFirm-PAPER.pdf
reports on reverse-engineering a previous keyboard patch and
producing a functional patch of his own.
-- Jerry
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