Apple Keyboard Hack Proved Possible

[Moklet Kcuf]

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Apple-Keyboard-Hack-Proved-Possible-118209.shtml

Recently the iPhone now your Keyboard!

Discovered by K. Chen, the concept is simple: a modern Apple keyboard has about 8K of flash memory and 256 bytes of working RAM – more than enough for a primitive keylogger to run.

the author of this “proof of concept” has also published the presentation and code in a PDF that's free to download for anyone

No reason to be too alarmed, but it is a little freaky.
Because normally for a hacker to install an undetectable keylogger, they would typically need Admin control. In this case, a hacker only needs to change the keyboard firmware, which could technically be done from any computer it's plugged into...

EDIT: techie conversation here - http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/01/1658258/Apple-Keyboard-Firmware-Hack-Demonstrated?from=rss