Timeline for Where do my keypresses go ?
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| Mar 17, 2015 at 7:45 | comment | added | YoMismo | @scott: I'm sure you are aware of keyloggers. Hypothetically they can collect whatever you type. Yes, you are right, that's an hypothesis untils someone (or you if you fell for it) install one on your computer, by that time it stops being an hypothesis and becomes reality. | |
| Mar 17, 2015 at 7:24 | comment | added | Scott - Слава Україні | @YoMismo: Exactly! That would be a reasonable answer to the question “Can anybody see what I do in my windowless basement from outside my house?” But, “If someone can see through bricks, rocks, and stones, then, yes, he can see into your basement” is not a useful answer, because it just leads to the question, “Can anybody can see through bricks, rocks, and stones?” And, in just the same way, “if [someone] has access to the buffer before it is read or erased then yes, [he] can read what you typed” is useless because it’s hypothetical; it doesn’t say whether any actual person has that ability. | |
| Mar 17, 2015 at 7:11 | comment | added | YoMismo | @scott or has set a tv cammera in your basement with outside communication. Yes, someone can see what you do in your basement. If you are completly sure no one has entered your basement and set a cammera, then rethink and don't be so sure. | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 19:50 | comment | added | Scott - Слава Україні | (Cont’d) … And your statement, “if [someone] has access to the buffer before it is read or erased then yes, [he] can read what you typed.” is a non-answer. It’s as if I asked, “Can anybody see what I do in my windowless basement from outside my house?” and you answered, “If someone can see through bricks, rocks, and stones, then, yes, he can see into your basement.” This is what’s known as begging the question. | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 19:49 | comment | added | Scott - Слава Україні | YoMismo: This is a half-decent answer to the question’s title, but not a very good answer to the question. “The next thing depends on … the first program that access[es] [the keystroke] buffer …” OK, when the computer is waking from suspend, what process other than the lock screen has access to the keyboard input buffer? … (Cont’d) | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 16:57 | comment | added | robut | Ah, I'm not concerned about my password being stored in memory (in a buffer, as you say). Rather, I am concerned that when I type my password NOT at the password prompt of the lock screen, that each individual character of my password is printed to the console somewhere where I couldn't normally see it once X has started back up soon after wake-up. Does that help clarify what I mean to ask ? | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 16:53 | history | answered | YoMismo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |