True, they're called "cameras". And "looking over your shoulder". But currently there's no popular spying software that can unobtrusively read the position of your mouse on the screen as you click on buttons. There _are_ screen recorders, but these are confounded when the software (like Roboform) uses it's own closed routines for the process.
Doable perhaps, but I know that the biggest security danger *today* is typing things at a keyboard. I try to avoid typing passwords at home, and I would NEVER type a password on someone else's machine. On Dec 30, 2007 11:47 AM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I suspect it's only a matter of time before they write a > >screenreader/mouselogger that will do the same thing as a keylogger. > > These already exist and they work at a distance. The screen display is > produced by a string of bytes sent to it serially by the video card. > Because it repeats at a known frequency it is easy to pick out from all > the other random electronic noise. It is a simple matter to detect the > signal and redisplay this string of bytes to see exactly what is on the > screen. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
