> BTW, how hard is it to install a keylogger on a mandrake box behind an
> IPCop firewall?

Personally, I think that is the point.  It's not true to say "Windows 
suffers from this mode of attack and Linux does not".  It's just easier to 
do it with Windows at the moment.  Once again this whole episode 
demonstrates that social engineering can be more powerful than security 
engineering.

My in-laws recently visited, and toured NZ.  They asked about internet 
cafes in general.  I told them that they can be found pretty much anywhere, 
and they'd be able to access their web mail, but not to do anything 
sensitive like on-line banking.  Afterwards I thought to myself that I must 
have sounded like a paranoid, and in fact I was unsure that such a warning 
was justified.  Now I know.

Andy

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