I see a lot of ads these days for fancy mechanical keyboards from numerous brands, but the thing I always wonder about is: how do we know these keyboards dont have keyloggers or other spying tech built into them?

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
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    5 days ago

    If you are somehow paranoid about this you can build your own keyboard and flash your own firmware to its micro controller.

    This is the correct answer, if that’s something that concerns a person. This would virtually guarantee privacy, and it’s not unlike the impetus behind open source hardware/software.

    But like you said, there’s no reason a company would go through the trouble of production, unless they thought that they would get a payout from it before getting caught (and that’s a big gamble for operating out in the open like that).