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It's also scary how easy it is, on any version of Windows, to make a keylogger. Any application can log keystrokes with ease... It's like 20 lines of c# code.
by helthanatos 10y ago
It's also scary how easy it is, on any version of Windows, to make a keylogger. Any application can log keystrokes with ease... It's like 20 lines of c# code.
- pjc50 10y agoSetWindowsHookEx(). Same functionality is available in XWindows: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/129159/record-every-keystroke-and-store-in-a-file http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/129159/record-every-... It's a consequence of the old security thinking where programs were installed by a "trusted administrator". Everything run by a user is assumed to be sound. The only way to prevent this is either aggressive limiting of features and sandboxing, like in the web browser. (Any windows application running as the user can also remote-control and surveil any other windows application through windows messages.)