[48569] in Cypherpunks
Re: FV Demonstrates Fatal Flaw in Software Encryption of Credit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Philp)
Mon Jan 29 22:38:44 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 22:22:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Philp <bplib@wat.hookup.net>
To: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Cc: nsb@nsb.fv.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9601300015.AA15891@sulphur.osf.org>
On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Rich Salz wrote:
> >There are many ways to spread it besides a virus. Zillions of 'em. And
>
> There are zillions (what, more than one thousand?) ways to get someone
> to run a random piece of software that will capture their keystrokes?
Not wishing to get in the middle of this controversy, I have been
wondering about the possibility of using a JAVA applet to do keyboard
sniffing. As I am not familiar with this language, does anyone know if
this would be possible?
Regards,
Tim Philp
