On 20 Jun 00, at 17:26, Brady, Padraig wrote:
> But it's only secure cos it's not well known,
> though you have the added security of combinations
> of serial pins to use.. Could you use a multimeter
> to see which of the serial pins were connected to
> the keyboard connector?
I would say it'd be dead easy to figure out if you knew anything about
keyboard signals/protocols - security through obscurity is not the way to
go - it's just something that came to me and seemed like a fun idea. It'd
be fun to see someone's reaction if you did it with all connectors and
didn't label any of them - just a bunch of 25pin connectors at the back of
the machine all wired in a seemingly random way.
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