{"id":417,"date":"2005-12-10T10:24:36","date_gmt":"2005-12-10T18:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/10\/how-to-hide-from-a-keylogger-on-a-public-computer\/"},"modified":"2005-12-10T11:27:18","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T19:27:18","slug":"how-to-hide-from-a-keylogger-on-a-public-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/10\/how-to-hide-from-a-keylogger-on-a-public-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to hide from a keylogger on a public computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you are at a public access terminal, it&#8217;s very possible that a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keylogger\">keylogger<\/a> is sniffing your keyboard. But sometimes it&#8217;s just so convenient that you have to use one of these machines anyway. To try and beat it, do the following:<\/p>\n<p>1 Open notepad<br \/>\n2 Type part of your password in the password window<br \/>\n3 Using the mouse, go to the notepad window<br \/>\n4 Type some nonsense characters<br \/>\n5 Using the mouse, return to the password window<\/p>\n<p>Repeat steps 2-5 a few times.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure that the password window doesn&#8217;t show your password on the screen because bad people might have put a program on your computer that takes screenshots every few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>(tip from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grc.com\/securitynow.htm\">Security Now Podcast<\/a>, Episode 17)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are at a public access terminal, it&#8217;s very possible that a keylogger is sniffing your keyboard. But sometimes it&#8217;s just so convenient that you have to use one of these machines anyway. To try and beat it, do the following: 1 Open notepad 2 Type part of your password in the password window [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-other-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}