Have a look at Richard Stiennon’s article on this rather disturbing device. It looks innocuous, plugs into the PS2 port and then the keyboard plugs into it and it can store 130,000 keystrokes. The user just needs to type into a password to get the information off it. (I imagine it sends the correct keypresses to type out its logs)

Rather disturbingly it is available on ThinkGeek for just $89.99. Now I’m really paranoid!

Of course this is exactly how the greatest attempted bank heist in history was pulled off. The bank robbers installed these devices on machines inside the bank and eventually got access to Sumitomo Bank’s wire transfer capability. They then proceeded to transfer more that $440 million to various accounts in other countries. Read all the gory details in this article I just published.

The one thing I do not mention in the article is that it is reported that Sumitomo Bank’s best practice for avoiding a repeat attack is that they now super-glue the keyboard connections into the backs of their PCs.

[Via Reddit]

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Unconnectedly but also via Reddit: I strongly reccomend this list of 101 films you must see before you die.

This isn’t like Roger Ebert’s “Great Movies” series. It’s not my idea of The Best Movies Ever Made (that would be a different list, though there’s some overlap here), or that they were my favorites or the most important or influential films, but that they were the movies you just kind of figure everybody ought to have seen in order to have any sort of informed discussion about movies. They’re the common cultural currency of our time, the basic cinematic texts that everyone should know, at minimum, to be somewhat “movie-literate.”