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Re: keyloggers?


From: Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:02:33 -0400

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:48:00AM -0800, SB wrote:
| Hi!
| 
| Any recommendations of Best Practices when accessing your Online
| Banking account from an Internet Cafe?  Assuming your bank does not
| provide two factor authentication, are there any specific checks you
| can do, tools you can run on a  machine to ensure it is not Logging
| keystrokes, caching UID/pwds etc
| 
| Any suggestions or advice in this area is greatly appreciated 

"Don't."

There is no way to effectively check that a machine that I give you is
secure.  Even if you (re-)boot from a livecd, there may be a physical
key logger on the machine.  the keyboard may be a logging one. etc.

Adam


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