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  • From: Sil Greene <quack AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Exercise in anti-keylogging
  • Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 00:52:43 -0400 (EDT)


.:
.:hmmm. some spyware captures screenshots. not sure how often this is
.:done. I presume it's not a steady stream, that would be obviously
.:detectable. sort of cat-and-mouse, now, wondering if the screenshot is
.:capturing what you've highlit to overtype in the password box.
.:

dunno, but i'm in the middle of an Orson Scott Card book that describes
exactly that technology. i assume, given some minimum CPU power and free
space and bandwidth, it would be undetectable. worst case: it takes a
screenshot every time the window changes (should be doable through the
window manager). it would be bursty, but not a steady stream, and the
free space needed would decrease as you add bandwidth (you only have to
store stuff until you can upload to the server). and hide anything
on-disk in a browser cache.



.:...just wondering out loud, contemplating the far corners of computer
.:security. Anyone else got any ideas on this?
.:

things that make you go hmmmmm....





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