October 17, 2003

Public Internet Terminals

Call me paranoid, but this article reminded me that i shouldn't use public terminals. i used a Kinko's in New York just this last September. had it been 2 months prior, my keystrokes would have potentially been logged. A good quote from the article,

Richard M. Smith, a security consultant in Cambridge, Mass., said customers could also use certain techniques to foil keystroke loggers. When typing in sensitive information, for instance, he suggests cutting and pasting individual characters from elsewhere to form the password.
No keys depressed, no characters logged.
so even if you have to type in a password, you can copy/paste characters one at a time from some random webpage.
paranoid? maybe. safe? yes.


Posted by Steve on October 17, 2003 11:07 AM
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