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Do you have security concerns with cheap mechanical keyboards (self.mechanicalkeyboards)
submitted 1 year ago by octoffset to c/[email protected]
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Yo everyone! I have questions about using cheap and generic mechanical keyboards. For example the Royal Kludge RK61 which has wired, Bluetooth and 2.4GHz connections. My host will be Linux machines. Do you see any security issues with using keyboards like that or were there any incidents of such devices being malicious?

Another concern might be the 2.4GHz USB that's included. Assuming it's not doing anything malicious is the connection encrypted or would you always instead use wired or Bluetooth? Thanks for any answers!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Short answer: yes, I'm always paranoid ๐Ÿ˜….

I haven't looked into wireless protocols, but I remember reading something about attacks on Microsoft wireless keyboards because they no or minimal security. At home I'd feel safe-ish but if you're gonna use a wireless keyboard in public, it's probably worth looking if the wireless protocol you're using has some kind of encryption.

There's also the possibility of the USB dongle being malicious. It could contain malware I guess. I'm definitely outside what I know here, but I assume it would show up as a flash drive if it were trying to do something weird.