…into' them and hack your information?
What I know about personal, could be engraved onto the head of a pin. So, my ignorance is now showing.
But, could someone parked in a vehicle outside of your home (theoretically), somehow manage to intercept the wireless signals between your keyboard and your CPU, or between your CPU and your printer, to learn information about the contents of your personal database, that you might not want others to know?
And if that is indeed theoretically possible, wouldn't that be a reason NOT to purchase wireless computer components?
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picked up by a receiver. Capturing the signals from keyboards and other accessories would be time consuming and foolish. The wireless system for keyboards and other accessories functions much the same way as cordless phones. This system prevents the signal of two wireless keyboards from interferring with each other. This system also makes it extremely difficult to pick up a single signal from a single keyboard or other accessory.
The method for stealing your data is to find unsecured Wi-Fi modems or routers. A spyware program is then installed on the personal using the unsecured Wi-Fi and the spyware sends out the data and the criminal receives it on his personal. This system can be done by simply driving through a neighborhood and finding the unsecured Wi-Fi signals and installing the spyware on that personal.
Wireless modems and routers have built in security to protect your computer.
The first level of protection is to password protect your modem/router. Believe it or not, most people still use simple password that are simple for them to remember. These passwords can be cracked by a password cracking program in a few seconds. A strong password of 8 or more characters is what should be used. The password should be a combination of Letters(small and caps), numbers and symbols in a random order.
The second level of protection is to use the encryption provided in the Wi-Fi modem or router. Most modems or routers have 3 level of encryption that can be used. WEP, WPA, WPA2 (also called WPA-PSK). The WEP is useless since it has been cracked and programs are available online that’ll crack this encryption very swiftly. WPA has never been cracked and is safe to use. WPA2 is the ideal encryption. This way your data is encrypted and receiving computers cannot read it since it will be nothing but a jumble of letters, numbers and symbols.
The Windows OS has built in File Encryption. This way if a spyware program accesses a file with your personal data the file is encrypted and cannot be read by the receiving celebration.
Another great method of protecting your data is to use a Firewall. A good Firewall will do much to stop spyware from being installed on your computer. My Wi-Fi router has a built in Firewall (called a Hardware Firewall) and I’ve it set to the 'Stealth' mode. The 'Stealth' mode prevents your computer from answering pings from other computers. Pinging is the way other personal find open ports on your personal and by not answering the pings the other personal assumes your IP address is not active and moves on to easier pickings. Also, Hardware Firewall are extremely difficult for Malware programs or hackers to turn off or change the settings. Software Firewall setting can be altered much easier.
So, your worrying about wireless keyboards and other accessories is making a mountain out of a molehill. Securing the Wi-Fi modem or router should be where you’re focusing your efforts.
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NO extremely unlikely. You see a wireless mouse or keyboard sends a signal to a receiver plugged into your personal, so the range probably would not extend to your street or anything and probably (I'm amusing) wouldn’t even be hackable.
Secondly, even if someone could hack into these things all they would see would be simple things, algorythim for the letter g, or code telling the cursor to move left 2cm. Mouse and keyboards only send signal two the personal and don't receive them.
For the most part printers two would only receive, but some send signals on ink levels, ect.
But for the most part, with mouses keyboards and printers you’ve nothing to worry about.
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My answer is always the same to people asking this. Look at it this way, you go out for a meal or shopping these days, and everything you pay for with your debit/credit card, is wireless. And nobody ever thinks twice when entering their pin. nobody ever seems to worry then. and there is more chance of someone sitting in a van trying to steal your details in a public place then your own home. If they werent safe, they wouldnt sell them.
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If they are able to hack into your network because the security is weak (WEP wi-fi encryption, for example) then they could potentially see everything that’s on your personal. Use WPA or WPA2 wireless encryption at the very least, assuming your hardware supports it (it'll only be an option if it does).
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first of all, call it computer, not cpu, cpu is the processor.
and it depends on what wireless it is, bluetooth? internetwireless? IR?, bluetooth, yes it works, same with world wide web if it is wireless, but IR would be hard.
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Unlike cell phones wireless signals from cards to p.c. are all scrambled so if some one did intercept them they would get ##@**&>>>%%## goop Unless they could get the driver info from your computer registration files (cannot be done !!) so rest…
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Wireless keyboards only have a range of about 10 feet. With sophisticated signal sniffers, amps and processors, someone outside might be able to detect keystrokes and mouse movement but other than detecting what you type, that’s about it, because there’s no output device. The keyboard is essentially a one way device.
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Eavesdropping on the signal between your CPU and printer might be a different story. You’re of course outputting information. But the real issue is that you might be using Wi-Fi instead of Bluetooth, which has a much longer range, and generally isn’t that hard to crack even if security is on. Of course, if you don’t print anything sensitive, then you won’t be compromised that way. And the information density while printing is fairly low –remember, nearly any novel can be stored in a less than one megabyte text file , but you wouldn’t want to print that out — so anyone eavedropping is not going to get large amounts of information. But you might want to be careful with printing very sensitive data.