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POWER-LINE EXPLOITS: ?Thinking about plugging your laptop into one of those coveted airplane termin?

By Glenn Reynolds

POWER-LINE EXPLOITS: “Thinking about plugging your laptop into one of those coveted airplane terminal power outlets while you wait for your flight to arrive? Be careful, because a hacker could be using those energy-giving wires against you. The technique is a form of keylogging, which is nothing new, but in an interesting twist hackers have figured out a non-traditional way to replicate the process using nothing but the electric signals created with each keystroke.” At first I thought they were talking about these guys, who have plenty of exploits of their own . . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 13, 2009 (boomark / email).