12/01/2007

Microsoft radio keyboards cracked!

One security company cracks coding of Microsoft radio keyboards. Swiss the enterprise Dreamlab Technologies AG can spy the data traffic between Microsoft radio keyboards and basis receivers, which communicate in the 27-MHz-Band according to own data. With the decoding procedure unauthorized are now in the position to decode all character inputs of such keyboards. It was demonstrated on the models "Wireless Optical Desktop 1000 and 2000.
The decryption is so week (only one byte length) that even a PDA with a slow ARM CPU is able to crack the code fast. So be aware of it.

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