[MLB-WIRELESS] Why does my typing appear on my neighbour's PC?

[Barry Park]

Bwhahahahahahaha.
- Barry

Why does my typing appear on my neighbour's PC?
By Drew Cullen
Posted: 06/11/2002 at 16:18 GMT


HP's wireless keyboards can transmit data to other computers in faraway
buildings. No this is not a feature but an astonishing security flaw,
discovered by two neighbours in Stavanger, southern Norway.

"Per Arild Evjeberg and Per Erik Helle made headlines (in Norway) when they
discovered that text Evjeberg was typing in was appearing in Helle's
apartment, 150 meters and at least two walls away," Aftenposten reports
(relax it's in English.

More at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/27971.html



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