Cuteness enjoyer.

  • 1.43K Posts
  • 223 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 16th, 2023

help-circle










  • Well, you don’t. But let’s think about it. The micro controller in it could easily log your keys. But logging data without retrieving it is rather useless. Either the keyboard itself has hardware to send out the data or it sends the data via your computer. The first one is absurd, what is that supposed to be, a satellite connection? The second one is not any different from having any old keylogger installed on your computer. The keyboard does the first step of collecting the keystrokes but every keyboard does that. The program does the second step of sending the data out over the internet but every keylogger does that. So could the software bundled with it be a keylogger? Sure but probably not. Making a whole company and production line with a product just to distribute a keylogger is quite overkill and risky when found out. With this line of thinking any software you install could be a keylogger, which it can be but is probably not the case. In short, there is nothing special about a keyboard that makes it more likely to be a keylogger than any other device or software. If you are somehow paranoid about this you can build your own keyboard and flash your own firmware to its micro controller. I did that but not for the reason of keyloggers, I just wanted to design and build my own keyboard.





















  • Yea, it was the same with the brainwavz ones. Actually I’m listening right now to a very jerry-rigged version of the M40x, I might post it somewhere on lemmy. It has the original pads, but the fake leather started to crumble heavily. I decided to rub it all off turning the faux leather pads into plain fabric ones. It doesn’t really change the sound at all. So I don’t think the leather version would solve the issue. Essentially, the M40x drivers need to be really close to the ear to work properly as the sound thins out significantly with every additional millimeter of distance. Deeper pads without destroying the sound is not possible in my estimation. Side note: mine are open-back now (lol) but it doesn’t change the sound?!