From: Nick Guenther (kousuegmail.com)
Date: Sun Jul 02 2006 - 13:56:03 CDT

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On 7/2/06, Chris Kuethe <chris.kuethegmail.com> 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

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