Thumbs Up for Keyshark?

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A company called Thumbs Up (UK) Ltd is now selling a USB version of ‘Keyshark’, a sneaky device which plugs into a computer at one end, and a keyboard’s USB connection at the other.

Hidden away among all the other connections and cables at the back of your computer, it runs in the background recording every keystroke made on the connected keyboard.

A microcontroller interprets the data and this is then stored on the 4MB internal memory.

The data is activated when the user types ‘menu’ in a text editor. Options are then displayed to erase data, view data, search data for keywords, change password, or disable the device.

Thumbs Up suggests a number of ethical uses for Keyshark, including monitoring children’s internet activity and allowing computer programmers to recover code after a power failure of computer error.

Keyshark USB is an updated version of the Keyshark for PS/2 and DIN style keyboards.