On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:21 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote:
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> Its a bad idea to install something like that on your machine anyway.
> An attacker will probably know of all such common tools floating
> around, like a prepackaged rpm, and check for their existence, they
> find it, you save them the trouble of installing one, they spend their
> time copying the log you've so conveniently assembled for them. Your
> concerned about security and your going to trust someone else's
> prepackaged keylogger? Better just restrict what the machine can
> do....there is a tool to help with this but you know I just can't
> remember the name.
>
>
Maybe he's a parent trying to see what his kid(s) are really doing on
the internet?
Other more serious trust/discipline issues involved here, I know, but
still, this might be what's going on.
Kevin
... Using a key logger?!?!?!?
Wouldn't it be far easier to look at the Firefox/etc cache?
- Gilboa