As none of you know, i have an intense hatred for all things Apple. iPhones and iPods are not exempt, and in fact are the creme of the crap. Why that is, i can expand upon on later, but right now, here is a splendid link on one of their most magnificent failures yet: a keyboard that can be hacked to record keystrokes in 18 seconds, and after it is hacked *cannot be unhacked* (easily).

The writer of the article suggests that the easiest way to clean the problem is throw out the keyboard. Well done, Apple. Heres to all your Mac ads concerning your amazing security.

To infect your keyboard, the attacker only needs to exploit one of the many weaknesses in Mac OS X and Apple applications. Once exploited, the attacker only needs to drop less than 100 KB of payload to infect the keyboard and the attack takes less than 18 seconds.This type of attack which is resilient against a full hard drive wipe is considered the holy grail of computer hacking because the hardware has been infected. Once the Apple keyboard (USB or BlueTooth) is infected, it is extremely difficult to detect and the only practical way to get rid of the infection is to throw away the keyboard.

Link here, courtesy of Digital Society.