On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:37:55AM +0800, Harisfazillah Jamel wrote: > Assalamualaikum and salam sejahtera, > > I found this add-on for Mozilla Firefox that said can defeat Keylogger.... > > KeyScrambler Personal encrypts your keystrokes at the kernel driver > level to protect what you type from keyloggers. > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3383/ > > Can it really help?
It can help QFX Software make money, so in that sense, it helps someone. As far as defending against actual keylogging attacks, it's pretty helpless against ones that target they keyboard hardware. I'd say if your computer is compromised to the point of having keyboard loggers installed, your chances of keeping anything private on it are approximately zero. This is an excellent example of "security as product," which is fundamentally the wrong way to go about it. That a giant industry is premised on this mistake is not a reason to believe that it's not a mistake. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[email protected]> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [email protected] iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate _______________________________________________ Owasp-Malaysia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia OWASP Malaysia Wiki http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420
