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[–] dabork 0 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago 

Lol "look for keyloggers". What do you think it's going to look like? A big black box inside your keyboard that says "KEYLOGX 2.2.3" ?

If they do bother to install a hardware keylogger, it would look just like a boring circuit board that you would have no way of knowing isn't vital to the keyboard without extensive knowledge. Hell, they could probably just integrate it into the circuit board that already exists to interpret the keys you press, and aside from maybe an extra chip on the board, there would be nothing notable to see. More likely is that somebody, either the government or the manufacturer, slips a keylogger into the driver itself. Hardware keyloggers are easier to use because they don't require you to beat an anti-virus or user competency, but they only work until they are found and then they are permanently broken, they also come with much less deniability. If someone ever found a hardware keylogger in any major brand's keyboards, it would literally ruin them. But a software keylogger can always be written off as a virus or a compromised system like what happened with the Ubuntu ISOs that were posted on their official site and came with some pretty serious malware. A software keylogger is more difficult, but harder to fully remove because software can be self-replicating and constantly changing itself.

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[–] Lopsid [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

My initial thought was anything with a chip is a candidate for inspection.