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Monitoring isn't really a solution, it just lets you know you need to make new keys and gives you a point in time to figure out if they were used after being co

• ownagefool 7y ago
  You're right monitoring doesn't stop your key from being stolen, but it might stop your key being used or for the vulnerability being used again.
• tluyben2 7y ago
  In the way OP suggests, it is; it's kind of like Zonealarm (I have no clue if that still exists; I haven't used Windows for a long time); so it will block a process before sending it and asking the user for permission to send something to X.com. It will do that with every change of X.com. You can allow your process everything of course, but it was convenient enough to block most everything evil while letting through only what I wanted without giving my dev (or any other processes) permission to send to ..
• eitland 7y ago
  That's kind of like saying modern healthcare and vaccines isn't really a solution sinve someone will invariably catch the flu every time a new virus hits, isn't it?
• staticassertion 7y ago
  Monitoring is not a 'solution', but it's quite effective. The real issue is that instrumentation is quite weak, so detecting this attack isn't trivial in most typical monitoring tools. Monitoring is also something that requires expertise, and therefor is something only companies are really going to benefit from. Individual users are not equipped to do this.