“We have to think about where we put our fingers and hands, and how we can keep them clean”

Could a personal Bluetooth keyboard save your life? Or at least one that includes a “clean” function? Plus, the danger of not backing up databases

Ihave just discovered the greatest leap forward in personal security since the taming of the pit bull terrier: there’s absolutely no chance of someone scoping out your password when your keyboard grabs and throws away the first key after power-on. Especially when the device in question gives no indication that the first keystroke from “asleep” has been discarded; instead, it devotes more of its attention to a rolling lightshow of LEDs peeking out from the keycaps than it does explaining that you might want to start over with your password. I only spotted something was up when I plugged it into my Mac Pro. OS X shows you little blobs in the password-entry dialog box, which then shake hilariously side to side to let you know you got it wrong and…

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