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April 5, 2008

How not "to lose" the passwords, if use the Internet of cafe for access to blogs

Roaming users who use untrusted machines to access password protected accounts have few good options. An internet caf´e machine can easily be running a keylogger. The roaming user has no reliable way of determining whether it is safe, and has no alternative to typing the password. We describe a simple trick the user can employ that is entirely effective in concealing the password. We verify its efficacy against the most popular keylogging programs.


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"We tested five shareware or commercial keylogging programs: HomeKeylogger 1.70, GhostKeylogger, KG-BKeylogger, Spytector 1.2.8 and ProBot. None of them captured passwords entered using the trick we describe."

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This are completely free

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