On 7/2/06, Chris Kuethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bear in mind that if you're serious about keeping plaintext away from
people who you don't want to see it, this could get quite tricky.
And that's not even taking into account that the thief might just put
trojan horses all over your laptop before letting you have it back.
Think of how often you hear of windows machines being turned into
spambots with keyloggers. Just because it seems to be mostly windows
machines doesn't mean it can't happen. *NIX makes it easy for even a
moderately competent programmer to write a trivial keylogger.
This is a good thread!
I have some questions though:
How can you make a keylogger on UNIX? I thought that UNIX segmented
it's memory spaces, unlike Windows which has the problem of a "global
key trampoline" (I'm sorry, I read this somewhere once and do not
remember exactly what it was called). I suppose if you replaced the
kernel than you could do this but I don't think that's what was meant.
How do you choose between svnd and vnd devices? I'm guessing the type
of the device is determined by whether you do `vnconfig svnd...` or
`vnconfig vnd` but the manpage doesn't explicitly say this.
-Nick
