[kuro]

Will wireless mouse cause any security concern? I mean can hacker use it as an entry point or pick up signal from it?

[DarkJester]

i suppose in theory its possiable for a malisiouse user to hijack your wireless mouse and cause you pc to download a file. but in paractice i cant see it happening easy. i mean if ure mouse starts acting weird and the on screen keyboard starts typing out a url in ie/firefox your not exactily gonna sit there and watch are you?

[X4lt]

kuro, on Jul 17 2007, 01:20 PM, said:

Will wireless mouse cause any security concern? I mean can hacker use it as an entry point or pick up signal from it?

DarkJester, on Jul 17 2007, 10:39 PM, said:

i suppose in theory its possiable for a malisiouse user to hijack your wireless mouse and cause you pc to download a file. but in paractice i cant see it happening easy. i mean if ure mouse starts acting weird and the on screen keyboard starts typing out a url in ie/firefox your not exactily gonna sit there and watch are you?

As DarkJester stated yes in theory this could be. But there are better ways to make things happen like opening a webpage and download a file. Its much faster for instance to use API to call programs and do all sort of things.
Even if one would use it its power is limited cause if u would want 2 automated the movements and the download it would have to use some kind of macro bit which is always buggy.

So personaly if i were to do it i would choose this method cause there are far better ways of doing it. But this doesnt mean that in theory it could be abused.

[Blake]

Also remember the person trying to pick up your mouse signal would have to be rather close. In addition data wise a keyboard would be more of a risk, albeit difficult to do as well.