Your USB mouse a Potential Threat?
Using a easily-replicated flaw in the USB specs, a group of notorious Canadians have turned various USB peripherals like mouse and keyboard into a hardware Trojan horse. The group made a modified keyboard capable of transmitting data in Morse code, using an LED. Then, the keyboard cannot be stopped from sending data over email, FTP or via any other method.
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