On 2011-10-13 13:40 , and...@torproject.org wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:39:12PM -0700, williamwright...@yahoo.com > wrote 1.1K bytes in 24 lines about: : Keyloggers would, I assume, > defeat the whole purpose of Tor since the URL would be recorded and > sent to the fedz. > > If you lose control over your local computer, tor cannot help you. > If the attacker can see every keystroke you enter, you've lost. I'm > not sure if this is true for onscreen keyboards as well.
If the adversary is taking a video or a high enough rate of screenshots then they should be able to catch what keys are being pressed, it does make it a bit harder. As you said though, if you are locally attacked, you already lost. But like always, just depends on what you are protecting against. > If the German customs agents took your computer away from you at a > border, you should assume the worst case and no longer trust your OS > nor hardware. It's possible tails may help here, but depending upon > hardware vs. software (bios firmware) attacks, the computer may not > be trustworthy at all. If the bios is infected, tails cannot help. Traveling with throw-away hardware is therefor always a good idea if you want to keep your stuff secure. The US also has the nasty policy of effectively placing you in a no-law-zone before immigration. Again, all depends on what one is protecting against and how paranoid one is ;) Greets, Jeroen _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
