Is Across secure?

Seungjin Lee · Aug 5, 2016

Short answer: Absolutely yes!

I have read an interesting news article: https://www.wired.com/2016/07/radio-hack-steals-keystrokes-millions-wireless-keyboards

When WIRED reached out to the affected manufacturers, EagleTec said it was still looking into Bastille’s research. Insignia denied that any of its keyboards lacked encryption, contradicting Bastille’s findings—though Bastille says it rechecked its test against Insignia’s keyboards and was able to successfully repeat the attack. Most of the companies didn’t respond to WIRED’s request for comment. Only Jasco, the company that makes the vulnerable GE keyboard, admitted to the problem and said it “will work directly with…customers of this product to address any issues or concerns,” asking that owners of the vulnerable keyboards contact its customer support. But Bastille says that there’s no easy fix for the vulnerabilities it’s found, since the wireless devices don’t have a mechanism to push out a patch. Instead, the company is advising that anyone who owns one of the hackable devices switch to a wired keyboard, or at least one that uses actual Bluetooth.
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Bluetooth v2.1 and later supports 128-bit AES encryption by default. So you can use Across comfortably without worrying about security.

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