Originally published at: Normal-looking USB cable logs everything you do and can be radioed from more than 1 mile away | Boing Boing
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What could possibly go wrong?
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"and costs $120. If that seems extraordinarily expensive for a USB cable, it’s because this one "
… is from the Boing Boing Store ?
Even making the case clear wouldn’t help because there’s always some sort of propriety-related chip in these cables so you never know what you’re getting.
Anyways, here’s something nice to hang on your wall.
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Well played, good sir.
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This is why I wrap my cables in tinfoil 
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Looking at their page, this really is designed less for keylogging and more for key stroke injection.
How many keyboards have a removable cable? At the same time though you could use this to inject key commands to a computer, tablet, or phone. It’s certainly harder to detect a hack when it’s coming from inside your network.
Get out! The hack is coming from inside the house!
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Putin should have given Trump something more personal, like a covfefe mug, or a fake framed “Time” magazine showing Trump as leader of the year… something for sure he would keep on his desk… Play to his vanity.
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Not relevant. When this cable is connected to a computer and the payload is triggered remotely, the computer will interpret the payload as input from a keyboard. Regardless whether an actual keyboard is plugged in or not. As long as the OS accepts input from a keyboard via USB this will work.
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Need more end-to-end encryption.
Seems relevant enough considering the keylogger version was built specifically for keyboards with detachable cables.
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