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Alternate solution: Make your own fork of Chromium or Firefox, where all keyboard input is logged to an encrypted file on disk as you type. If something you wr
by codetrotter 3y ago
Alternate solution:
Make your own fork of Chromium or Firefox, where all keyboard input is logged to an encrypted file on disk as you type. If something you wrote in a text input disappears before you got to submit it, you can then find it in your encrypted file on disk.
- wongarsu 3y agoThere are also browser extensions that do this (minus the encrypted part).
- codetrotter 3y agoI tried to search for that but for Firefox all three results I could immediately find were ages old so I am not sure they still work. Also, it’s important to write to disk very often for this purpose. And the encryption is important. And given that you are adding something that is in effect a keylogger and trusting it with all your inputs, I would not want just any random third party add on author to be in charge of that.
- tedunangst 3y agoAn easier way to do this is a small X utility that logs keystrokes, but only if the window title contains Firefox. You can write such a utility faster than you can compile a browser.
- codetrotter 3y agoMy laptop runs macOS. On macOS it's a bit annoying because you have to use accessibility frameworks for that kind of things I think. I think over time it might potentially be easier to maintain a keylogger on top of a forked web browser, than to maintain a system level keylogger on macOS, when all I am interested is the keystrokes I type in the browser.