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One more update
Surprisingly, people are even now reading this two-year-old hint. So I'll offer one more update. The question was raised in a comment as to how you can reduce false positives from known devices being moved around. Below is part of the script I now use to check the USB buses. The value of the variable KNOWN is the path to a list of known USB devices that I use, identified by the vendor and device codes.
The effect of this is that known devices are ignored. Only the presence of a previously unknown device will cause an alert. I create the $KNOWN file by running the above command with all devices plugged in and the last pipe omitted.
One more update
I'm still using 10.5. The script will probably have to changed slightly for 10.6.
every found a hardware keylogger
This is a great technique for finding a hardware keylogger. Has anyone actually found such a device attached to their Mac via software inspection (or for that matter via hardware inspection). I'd be a lot more worried about software keyloggers. I looked at all of them and there would be no issue in disguising the process name and running incognito at least in the case of the freeware and open source OS X keylogger logKext. The only way to really secure a computer would appear to limit physical access to the machine. Still I'd love to hear some real life war stories. ---
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every found a hardware keylogger
You should have no expectation of privacy when using a computer of which you aren't the sole administrator. Never do any personal business on a public machine. Carry your own laptop or smart phone around.
great advice
but every time I've tried disk encryption I've ended up losing my data to disk corruption or some such thing. ---
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