Re: [tlug] webmail password protection?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "David" == David J Iannucci <David> writes:

    David> When I log in, rather than typing, I copy and paste
    David> characters off the text on the login page (to thwart
    David> keyloggers).

X11 transmits all of these as events, so anybody with access to the X
stream can see them.  You lose, unless the machine is running, say,
Windows so there are no X events.  I don't think Mac OS or Windows
have such event streams, but who knows.

In practice, keyloggers are going to get most of the people who are
susceptible, so I doubt the black hats will go to that much trouble.

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