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SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2007-12-10 : 07:15:36
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/Microsoft-wireless-keyboard-hacked-from-50-meters/0,130061702,339284328,00.htm

quote:
Microsoft's director of security response, Mark Miller, said the company was investigating Dreamlab's claims. He said Microsoft was unaware of any attacks exploiting the claimed vulnerability or any customer impact.


Obfuscating only? Yikes...



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harsh_athalye
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

5581 Posts

Posted - 2007-12-10 : 07:24:28
XOR for encryption...and that too by MS! That's absurd!

Harsh Athalye
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SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2007-12-10 : 07:35:44
Maybe they looked at the CHECKSUM function in SQL Server?
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=70832



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SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2007-12-10 : 08:20:58
I mean, they spend millions of dollars to build a new keyboard, and forget about the encryption?



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TG
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

6065 Posts

Posted - 2007-12-10 : 16:57:48
I heard that their first attempt was to use pig-latin. but there was some ambiguity problems. "fat ass" and "phat ass" both "encripted" to atassFey.

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TG
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TG
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

6065 Posts

Posted - 2007-12-10 : 17:18:20
<cricket>...<cricket>

sorry -
Mladen, if you want to take back your encouragement to start posting again I'll understand

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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)

7020 Posts

Posted - 2007-12-10 : 18:16:16
In retrospect, they probably shouldn't have let the summer intern design the security.



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