JitterBugs could turn your keyboard against you

Researchers warn against an entirely new threat to computer security: peripheral devices - such as keyboards - which could be physically bugged in an attempt to steal data. A class of devices that could covertly transmit data across an existing network connection without the user's knowledge has been identified. They are called JitterBugs.

Well this can be added to the list of ways people can now log from computers, first it was the ability to diferentiate the individual sounds of each key being pressed to figure out what the person was typing, by just recording the keyclicks, and now this comes along. This is just one more thing to be parinoid about when getting a keyboard, and with it being undetectable on the software side, actually searching the keyboards for these things may have to become a reality, espeically in sensitive areas such as the government. Though it seems still that crooks are just going for the good old way of just breaking in and physically taking the data, as shown with yet another laptop being stolen, with sensitive information of personal retired military. So this stuff may be a possiblity, but if even the physical security of the comptuers, as well as the security of the files cannot be trusted, crooks are just going to resort to doing things like, breaking in and stealing the laptops, becuase it is more simple than trying to get a keylogger, or a JitterBug, or any other logger.

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