I have seen keyloggers that look just like a bigger version of a PS/2 connector. Take a look at this:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/5a05/ http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/7af2/ I am quite certain that if I can order those from Thinkgeek, there are versions in use in the world by various organizations that are smaller and could conceivably be put inside a laptop keyboard or a normal keyboard and be very hard to detect. On 12/13/06, Anthony Q. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
but I was under the impression that on a desktop, one hides the "hardware" behind the PC (or under the keyboard, or someplace) so that it can do the logging...and then it gets removed later. I don't see how that works on a laptop, assuming you keep all the ports visible and don't connect it to anything else. If there is some other way to do it via hardware, I'd like to know. Brian Weeden wrote: > Same way it happens on a desktop I would assume - it records all your > keystrokes and then it is either removed or accessed remotely and the > strokes are extracted. It's not easy but you can sometimes extract > information like logins. For example, on a normal system, the first > string is going to be your Windows login/password. > > On 12/13/06, Anthony Q. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Brian Weeden wrote: >> > >> > 4. Hardware keylogger >> > >> >> How does a hardware keylogger work on a laptop? >> > >
-- Brian