Here's a mildly alarming story about people able to read your computer keystrokes just by hooking a gadget to an electrical outlet somewhere near where your computer's plugged in. But a few of the comments that readers have left on the page are funnier than the story is troubling:

Just do what I do -- don't ever type anything worth reading.

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I am posting at Slashdot - kinda like preaching to the converted, isn't it?

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looks like I have to come up with a random noise generator to hook up to the ground of my power outlets.

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Vacuum cleaner? Microwave? Air conditioning?

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Vacuum cleaner? Speak for yourself! My vacuum cleaner hose doubles as a microphone and a more melodic password obfuscator has rarely been heard!

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Root is like crack. Don't smoke it. I did once and got hooked. I ran Mac OS Updates as root. ****, I even had sex with my girlfriend as root. Man, that caused some permissions problems. When I started the road to recovery (logging in as Zacks) my girlfriend was all like: "**** no! You can't get any cause you don't own me an I don't go groups. You don't have the power to read, write OR execute so get out of my FACE" So I was all HELL NO bitch. And she wuz like you do not have root (superuser) privlages so get out of my TruBlueEnvironment! So then I went chown and chmodded her ass to me. Dat be-otch be up in my hizzouse. What what. Holla!