Information Kickstarter hacked.

[Jasede]

Very good point. Still a cool thing to see.

 

[Tramboi]

Only if they can actually put a microphone a few meters from your PC. A camera pointed at the keyboard as you type the password will do the same

Or they can break your knees and ask nicely for the pw

 

[RK47]

no more pledges

 

[skuphundaku]

Awesome hack method with the microphone. Makes all encryption efforts of the last 10 years useless :p. Maybe next time we buy computers we'll get special "voltage mixers" included so it randomly mashes the signals and the power drawn from the supply whenever password and encryption actions take place.

Only if they can actually put a microphone a few meters from your PC. A camera pointed at the keyboard as you type the password will do the same

You don't even need a camera. Van Eck radiation is an eavesdropper's best friend:
http://hackaday.com/2008/10/20/eavesdrop-on-keyboards-wirelessly/
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/04/seeing-through-walls.html
Now enjoy going through the 5 stages of grief before you accept that the only way of staying safe is inside a nuclear bunker.

 

[Azrael the cat]

Awesome hack method with the microphone. Makes all encryption efforts of the last 10 years useless :p. Maybe next time we buy computers we'll get special "voltage mixers" included so it randomly mashes the signals and the power drawn from the supply whenever password and encryption actions take place.

Only if they can actually put a microphone a few meters from your PC. A camera pointed at the keyboard as you type the password will do the same

Every speaker is also a microphone. If you have sound coming out of your rig, whether through speakers or headset or a mobile phone in your pocket, that's an accessible microphone.

 

[Spectacle]

Awesome hack method with the microphone. Makes all encryption efforts of the last 10 years useless :p. Maybe next time we buy computers we'll get special "voltage mixers" included so it randomly mashes the signals and the power drawn from the supply whenever password and encryption actions take place.

Only if they can actually put a microphone a few meters from your PC. A camera pointed at the keyboard as you type the password will do the same

You don't even need a camera. Van Eck radiation is an eavesdropper's best friend:
http://hackaday.com/2008/10/20/eavesdrop-on-keyboards-wirelessly/
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/04/seeing-through-walls.html
Now enjoy going through the 5 stages of grief before you accept that the only way of staying safe is inside a nuclear bunker.

Hehe, I do actually have some experience working on computers inside nuclear bunkers, and even then they had extra shielding to prevent eavesdropping.

 

[Kz3r0]

Awesome hack method with the microphone. Makes all encryption efforts of the last 10 years useless :p. Maybe next time we buy computers we'll get special "voltage mixers" included so it randomly mashes the signals and the power drawn from the supply whenever password and encryption actions take place.

Only if they can actually put a microphone a few meters from your PC. A camera pointed at the keyboard as you type the password will do the same

You don't even need a camera. Van Eck radiation is an eavesdropper's best friend:
http://hackaday.com/2008/10/20/eavesdrop-on-keyboards-wirelessly/
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/04/seeing-through-walls.html

First used by the Soviets, on a side note this is also the reason why passwords are replaced by asterisks on screen.

 

[St. Toxic]

Didn't they just try to access your Steam account? But they couldn't log in, since they would have had to use your email. I don't think they hacked you.

Maybe you're right, but I suspect they did manage to log on to the account without email confirmation, though fortunately they couldn't actually do anything with it other than browse my games list. Someone did, however, access my paypal on the same day, which was another dead end in terms of valuables. Unpleasant business all around.

 

[J_C]

Jesus christ, good thing I decided to change my passwords afterall.

 

[Tramboi]

You shouldn't wait for decoupling your passwords, because when one Adobe or Kickstarter goes public about having been compromised, how many small sites have their DBs leeched and don't even know about it?