Anyone we know?Helkowski is also a self-described computer keyboard aficionado. At one point, he had a collection of more than 35 keyboards, starting with a Northgate OmniKey that he picked up at a yard sale for $10. When the FBI raided his house, the agents had difficulty dealing with his current preferred keyboard—a Japanese keyboard with an English alphabet that he bought in the Akhibara district of Tokyo. The characters for each key are printed on the front of the key instead of its top, and its symbols don’t properly map to US standards.
Hacker keyboard guy
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
- Contact:
http://arstechnica.com/information-tech ... tells-all/
- ne0phyte
- Toast.
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: HHKB Pro 2
- Main mouse: Mionix Avior 7000
- Favorite switch: Topre 45g, MX Blue
- DT Pro Member: 0003
Haha who knows.
I wouldn't let them (and they probably couldn't) use my keyboard. They should bring their own!When the FBI raided his house, the agents had difficulty dealing with his current preferred keyboard
- Eszett
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: Filco Majestouch 2 TKL DE MX blue
- Main mouse: Logitech MX Master 2S
- DT Pro Member: -
A red escape key is a gewgaw. How about a “raid”-Key, which erases the harddisk securely, while police officers are approaching to your house? Then, the red color would fit that button.
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
- Contact:
Works for me when I'm on a job with my HHKB. Blank black keys, red clickclack escape. No one dares to touch it. But when someone does, Colemak does the trick anyway.Muirium wrote:Security through keyboard obscurity…
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- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- DT Pro Member: 0011
The keyboard should be irrelevant. If you do computer forensics, you don't boot he suspect's computer and use his keyboard. You remove the harddrives, copy their contents and then run your searches on your local copy.
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
The feds can be incompetent too. The main reason I don't cower too deeply in fear at all this NSA stuff. Sure, they have the power. But they're just dudes, too. With dickhead managers, braindead training, idiot objectives, dodgy backups, random changes of direction and HR…
Poor bastards.
Poor bastards.
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
- Contact:
Also, if you have a weird keyboard, you are clearly a terrorist. The computer might explode.
- scottc
- ☃
- Location: Remote locations in Europe
- Main keyboard: GH60-HASRO 62g Nixies, HHKB Pro1 HS, Novatouch
- Main mouse: Steelseries Rival 300
- Favorite switch: Nixdorf 'Soft Touch' MX Black
- DT Pro Member: -
That Northgate Omnikey link goes to our wiki. Maybe we should add a section:
Known to be used by notorious hacker Helkowski.
- Grendel
- Location: Corvallis, OR, USA
- Main keyboard: CM Storm Quickfire XT MX Green
- Main mouse: Logitech G9
- Favorite switch: MX Ghost Blue
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
No need really. TrueCrypt FTWEszett wrote:A red escape key is a gewgaw. How about a “raid”-Key, which erases the harddisk securely, while police officers are approaching to your house? Then, the red color would fit that button.
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- Location: u1h2fm
- Main keyboard: Traditional Thinkpad/Ergodox
- Main mouse: Trackpoint/Vertical Mouse
- Favorite switch: Model F
- DT Pro Member: -
TrueCrypt is not secure enough for the truly paranoid. The key is stored in RAM and can be extracted. There is Tresor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRESOR) that avoids this by using debug registers and not RAM as storage for the key.
On could use a Raid Key, that does 1) Make the filesystems sync 2) powers down the PC 3) Reboots into memtest to erase the RAM.
On could use a Raid Key, that does 1) Make the filesystems sync 2) powers down the PC 3) Reboots into memtest to erase the RAM.
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
- Contact:
TrueCrypt + Japanese keyboard ftw.
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- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: KBC Poker MX Red
- Main mouse: Logitech MX Revolution
- Favorite switch: MX Red
- DT Pro Member: -
Haha. Use only SSD and have a macro that does ata secure erase... takes only a moment and everything is 100% gone forever. As for keyboards...
I would guess mixing some different language sets should make it FBI proof.