submitted 2 months ago by sqw@lemmy.sdf.org to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

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I see a lot of ads these days for fancy mechanical keyboards from numerous brands, but the thing I always wonder about is: how do we know these keyboards dont have keyloggers or other spying tech built into them?

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[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

limited communication from the host to the Keyboard would be a challenge (capslock, NumLock, Scrollock).

Yeah. That's the part that makes me think no one is currently doing this at wide scale.

Due to factors you mentioned and others, it feels like it would be brittle and prone to detection.

And it's interesting enough that it would be big news among Cybersecurity and Privacy nerds. So we would probably be hearing about it if someone was planting something like this into mass market keyboards.

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