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This reminds me of that section in the book Cryptonomicon, where our hero is programming on a laptop that he knows is being spied upon using Tempest and probably more, and is using clandestine input via morse code on the shift (?) key. I really enjoyed that book.
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? even on one's own computer? I don't follow It would follow from your statement that not disabling the screen lock is also anti-social.
Windows has a "sticky keys" accessibility feature that is enabled by pressing "shift" many times. I believe it's intended for people who have a hard time holding multiple keys at the same time. It's something that would be easy to trigger accidentally if you are using the shift keys to play pinball or type morse code.
Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson had a subplot where a main character used morse code on his keyboard, or some other layered encoding on top of the keyboard, to write software and communicate surreptitiously even while his screen was being recorded.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
? even on one's own computer? I don't follow It would follow from your statement that not disabling the screen lock is also anti-social.
Windows has a "sticky keys" accessibility feature that is enabled by pressing "shift" many times. I believe it's intended for people who have a hard time holding multiple keys at the same time. It's something that would be easy to trigger accidentally if you are using the shift keys to play pinball or type morse code.
This reminds me of that section in the book Cryptonomicon, where our hero is programming on a laptop that he knows is being spied upon using Tempest and probably more, and is using clandestine input via morse code on the shift (?) key. I really enjoyed that book.