"Jim Watt" <jimwatt@aol.no_way> wrote in message
news:34f5k15fb3pk81i3erbm2k1lhp78snu2s5@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:12:02 GMT, "Hairy One Kenobi"
> <abuse@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:

<snip>

> >I suspect the new version is based on the relatively new MicroChip USB
PIC
> >library. One of the early demos was a serial keyboard reader; shouldn't
take
> >a genius to combine the two.

> The promotional pictures on their website (which, in fairness they
> say may not be totally representative) show a device daisy chained
> between a keyboard and the USB port. Its pretty obvious and I
> do spend time under peoples desks looking at the backs of
> machines. Although there are a good number of USB mice,
> USB keyboards are unusual at present.

Interesting - I didn't go as far as looking at the site.

For a "world-beater", it sounds pretty old-hat, compared with what was
happening a few years ago.. and precisely like a primitive sniffer using the
PIC libraries.

Bearing in mind the teeny amount of RAM available, was a comment made about
how to actually use this as an exploit (e.g. add code to handle comms, or a
pick 'em up EEPROM)?

Can't be too sophisticated, if it can't automatically pick-up a keyboard
from a USB hub...

H1K