Some questions

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Mon Aug 11 18:21:56 CEST 2008


On Monday 11 August 2008, reynt0 wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, Andrew Berg wrote:
>   . . .
>
> > I've gotten into the habit of typing my passwords very quickly with
> > very little finger movement in order to make it difficult for
> > anyone looking over my shoulder to figure them out.
>
> Or anyone sitting to the side of you two seats away,
> who is doing something with their camera-enabled
> cellphone, and so on.  Maybe what is needed is
> like a curtain arrangement--you tilt your laptop
> lid toward you to reduce the view-access angle, then
> drop down a curtain from the lid edges to block vision
> of the keyboard, then push a button to retract the
> curtain -- like a device in a 1960's USA movie :-) .

You mean like those:
http://www.sternlab.org/index.php?project=BodyTechnologyInterfaces

:-)


> Of course, then it's pretty obvious you are typing
> something special so that's when the attacker turns
> on the camera and sound recorder.....

So you just have to use it all the time. Just as you should encrypt all 
of your email messages and not just the one message you don't want the 
government to see.


Regards,
Ingo
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