Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting , Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - All Your Keyboards Are Belong To Us!

[Jerry Feldman]

When: November 19, 2025 7:00PM EST (6:30PM for Q&A)

Topic: All Your Keyboards Are Belong To Us!

Presenter:  Federico Lucifredi

Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Meeting will be recorded, but not live streamed. Recordings will be 
posted: https://blu.org/video/

Summary:

Reprise of Federico's recent DEF CON 2025 talk

Abstract:

This is a live tutorial of hacking against keyboards of all forms. 
Attacking the keyboard is the ultimate strategy to hijack a session 
before it is encrypted, capturing plaintext at the source and (often) in 
much simpler ways than those required to attack network protocols.

In this session we explore available attack vectors against traditional 
keyboards, starting with plain old keyloggers. We then advance to “Van 
Eck Phreaking” style attacks against individual keystroke emanations as 
well as RF wireless connections, and we finally graduate to the new 
hotness: acoustic attacks by eavesdropping on the sound of you typing!

Use your newfound knowledge for good, with great power comes great 
responsibility!

A subset of signal leak attacks focusing on keyboards. This talk is 
compiled with open sources, no classified material will be discussed.


      Bio

    Federico Lucifredi is The Ceph Storage Product Management Director
    at Red Hat, formerly the Ubuntu Server PM at Canonical, and the
    Linux “Systems Management Czar” at SUSE.


          Attachments:

    https://defcon.org/html/defcon-33/dc-33-index.html


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http://www.blu.org

Our meeting recordings are found on the Video tab: http://blu.org/video/

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Jerry Feldman<gaf.linux at gmail.com>
Boston Linux and Unixhttp://www.blu.org
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