> Again, this sounds pretty tough to crack in my humble opinion.  For more
> expert advice, I defer to Bryan Allerdice, whose comments may be worthy of
> a tip.

Thanks. I didn't post my reply to Jim's message on this list - only on the
GoldMoney list. Let me make up for that by repeating my comments here too.

These days people use commercial monitoring programs - they type bosses
use to spy on staff - since virus scanners can't complain about a legit
program. They look at so much of what you do, including your clipboard,
that the old drag and drop from a file is no safer than typing.

Anyhow, onto what I said on GoldMoney...

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> Your typical keystroke logger can't do two things.  First, it
> cannot do anything about data in the clipboard (Windows and
> MacIntosh products both use a clipboard for temporary storage
> of text or other data).

Not in my experience. Any trojan I've run across in the past few years has
clipboard monitoring too. I think it's dangerous of people to think that
they are safe because they have a file with the alphabet in it and they
drag and drop letters.

That's why I like the CryptoCard that e-bullion and has and to a lesser
degree the PIK thing Pecunix has. Given enough monitored access attempts,
one can learn all the character positions in a PIK - nice idea, but it's
really just delaying the patient hacker. With the CryptoCard your response
is always different - well, there are 100,000,000 responses, but that's a
fair whack.

Anyway, that's just my take.

BRYAN

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