Sonar Keyboard Logs You Out To Protect Your Data 175
Zothecula writes "While the simple act of logging off a workstation is an obvious way to protect sensitive data – like that used by healthcare providers, pharmacies, banks and government agencies – it is all too easy for users to forget and leave the data not only viewable, but also editable by anyone who happens to pass by. Custom keyboard supplier Key Source International (KSI) has developed a keyboard that does the remembering for you, logging out as soon as the user physically leaves the keyboard."
Re:Hey, I've got an idea. (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm sure that would work GREAT in a hospital setting where a nurse keying in data has to jump up and run down the hall to a patient who is crashing..... and then gets fired because she forgot to log herself out on 3 occasions. /sarcasm
IT Support? (Score:4, Insightful)
This is going to be nightmarish for IT and it will generate all kinds of useless calls as a result. My guess is we'll be seeing some people using duct tape over the sensors on the first day too, making these expensive keyboards totally useless, apart from being a great way to inflate IT budgets, to ensure they stay plump.
Re:Hey, I've got an idea. (Score:2, Insightful)
Tried sonar mounted above the monitor at our hospital already. Unsurprisingly, you a corrrect. The genius docs and nurses taped tongue depressors with a small index card to hang in front of the device so it wouldn't log off...