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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: ds26gte on Thu, 12 November 2009, 09:08:23

Title: typing directly into a flash drive?
Post by: ds26gte on Thu, 12 November 2009, 09:08:23

Is there a (battery-powered, say) smallish adapter/contraption that can come between a USB keyboard and a USB flash drive, so that anything one types goes directly into the drive?

Title: typing directly into a flash drive?
Post by: ds26gte on Thu, 12 November 2009, 09:59:12

Quote from: ripster;131948

Oh, and can you turn your credit card over and type the 3 number code?  Thx. :biggrin1:

I was thinking not of an interceptor but more of an Alphasmart-like setup where you give up a view window (only because it is expensive) and you get to use your own keyboard(s).  As I write my NaNoWriMo novel, I think it would be useful to be able to just carry my keyboard around and type without having to be attached to a computer, monitor, desk.  I can then download to a computer and clean up the text later.

Title: typing directly into a flash drive?
Post by: Rajagra on Thu, 12 November 2009, 10:02:32

Am I the only one who finds it disgusting that those key loggers* are freely available? There are laws forbidding production of equipment that can make (legal!) copies of discs etc, yet devices like this are allowed.

It would be nice to see them put to legitimate use though. I wonder if adding a battery would be enough to get it going as a portable data entry device. I suspect the keyboard wouldn't initialize.

Edit> * Another good reason to use Colemak!!

Title: typing directly into a flash drive?
Post by: timw4mail on Thu, 12 November 2009, 10:13:39

Quote from: Rajagra;131961

Am I the only one who finds it disgusting that those key loggers* are freely available? There are laws forbidding production of equipment that can make (legal!) copies of discs etc, yet devices like this are allowed.

It would be nice to see them put to legitimate use though. I wonder if adding a battery would be enough to get it going as a portable data entry device. I suspect the keyboard wouldn't initialize.

Edit> * Another good reason to use Colemak!!

I doubt Colemak is going to protect you any.

Title: typing directly into a flash drive?
Post by: Rajagra on Thu, 12 November 2009, 10:28:33

Quote from: timw4mail;131965

I doubt Colemak is going to protect you any.

It will protect you in the sense that, for example, if you type in this sentence, the key logger will record:
"Lf wluu rs;fkcf o;i lj fhk dkjdk fhaf, e;s kxamruk, le o;i fork lj fhkd dkjfkjck, fhk nko u;ttks wluu skc;sgP"

Of course as soon as they know you're using Colemak, you're busted.

Title: typing directly into a flash drive?
Post by: DreymaR on Fri, 13 November 2009, 03:15:06

There's lots of cool stuff (as always) over at ThinkGeek (http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/), including a keylogger (http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/c49f/). The usual sales pitch for those are backup of important work, but these guys don't mind being funny about it.