I aways wondered if the communication channel between my wireless keyboard and the usb receiver-antena is secure. I never bother to reseach this. Today I figured out the practical way. I turned on my pc at work and I tried to type the first letter of my password. Nothing hapened. Then I started spamming that letter. Still nothing, until the person next to me said “my keyboard is typing all by itself”. It turns out she has a wireless mouse with a seemigly identical receiver-antena usb.
The moral of the story. If it was so easy to almost leak my password unintentionally due to this flaw of wireless keyboard communication, imagine wad a bad actor can do intentionally. Why try to brute force, social engineer e.t.c. when your password can be stollen in transit from your keyboard to your pc.
All my passwords are random characters and I just copy/paste out of bitwarden. Can’t leak that with a wireless keyboard.
Does that work for logging in?
I only log in on my own devices. On devices that I don’t own, I change the password afterwards.
I think they mean logging into the device itself. Like, if you have a computer at work with a work login, etc.
Fair enough, that is a bit complicated. Thank you for clarification.
So what you’re saying is that the password to get all your passwords from the cloud is typed onto a wireless keyboard?