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Wireless mice are hackable up to a city block away
app103:
But again, if a hacker can know what website you have opened at any given moment, you probably have other security problems to be worried about.
-Deozaan (March 29, 2016, 06:55 PM)
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How many public places offer free wifi and how many people use it? A hacker could be close enough to visually spy and know what page you are on, and close enough to take control, and you'd be more likely to want to use one of those cheap compact mini wireless mice than lugging a big wired one around with you.
Time is always a factor. It looks to me like people expect immediate breaches of their security, because a hacker swoops in, breaks security and robs you blind of information and/or money. But in my (arguably rotten) mind the most successful hacker is the one who has a bit of patience and gets to "know" the target by studying any type of data he/she can get from his/her target. That mouse data would sure help in case social engineering isn't an option.
-Shades (March 29, 2016, 11:57 AM)
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You mean like studying the guy who uses Starbucks as his office, taking advantage of their free wifi and easy access to coffee, and works from there, predictably, every single day? He sits at the same table each day, sets up his laptop, wireless mouse, etc. and stays there for about 4-6 hours, Monday through Friday.
If you know this and can show up before he does, you can choose a table close enough, that gives you a fairly clear view of his screen. You can pretend to be someone just like him, working from the same coffee shop every day, just like him, strike up a conversation, get to know him, all while spying on him as he works.
Might not be worth the trouble in some rinky dink town to try to target an individual like that, but in a large urban area like NYC, Seattle, or San Francisco, it could be.
Stoic Joker:
Two left arm swipes down, then one right arm swipe to the left then three Seig Heils and your password is accepted.
-MilesAhead (March 29, 2016, 08:55 AM)
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Honestly, I've found the gesture based passwords to be so insanely easy to (shoulder surf at virtually any angle) hack that there is no way in hell I'd ever use one.
Watch the wrist, look at the picture ...(and at least 80% of the time)... Duh!
MilesAhead:
Two left arm swipes down, then one right arm swipe to the left then three Seig Heils and your password is accepted.
-MilesAhead (March 29, 2016, 08:55 AM)
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Honestly, I've found the gesture based passwords to be so insanely easy to (shoulder surf at virtually any angle) hack that there is no way in hell I'd ever use one.
Watch the wrist, look at the picture ...(and at least 80% of the time)... Duh!
-Stoic Joker (April 02, 2016, 08:14 AM)
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I was being facetious. Now that you mention it though I do remember seeing one. I must have dismissed the memory as too ridiculous to take seriously. It is disconcerting that insane stuff I think up is actually in use. It shows there are people crazier than I am out there doing who knows what? Heh heh
mwb1100:
I hope not to sidetrack the thread, but gesture-based passwords reminds me of baseball, and the 2016 MLB season is opening this weekend (official Opening Day is tomorrow, but several teams have already had their first games).
Yes! Go M's!.
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