Keylogers

[Mike Acker]

On 14:59, Faramir wrote:
>   If there are key loggers involved, then you are toasted, even if the
> passwords are kept inside your mind instead of a password database. At
> the moment you type them, they would be captured. Of course, we might
> say it is better to lose one password at a time, and not the whole
> database, but... well, I guess it's a personal decision (unless you have
> to follow some policy).

yep. Phil Zimmerman noted that in his original essay on PGP.  If you
have a malware infection you can no longer speak to what your computer
is or is not doing.

which is why we need that software inventory tool.

-- 
/MIKE