Timeline for How to safely use password-protected websites on internet cafe computers
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| Sep 20, 2016 at 16:12 | comment | added | Stephan Bijzitter | My apologies, but from a technical perspective this answer is largely useless. | |
| Sep 20, 2016 at 11:20 | comment | added | Bakuriu | I'd insert my LiveUSB stick and boot my OS... this should give some protection (but they could still have infected the firmware or directly attached some hardware device) but may not be possible to do. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 15:05 | comment | added | njzk2 | do you check the root certificates installed? | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 16:09 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | Well, a compromised Firefox won't necessarily spread to a distinct copy. It may help. Expecting it to certainly do so would be wrong, though. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 15:31 | comment | added | Berwyn | What good does using your own copy of firefox do on a compromised machine? | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 15:30 | comment | added | R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE | The only thing you achieve by inserting your USB stick with portable firefox is getting it infected with viruses. Running software from own disk on a compromised computer does not make it any less compromised. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 14:38 | comment | added | Mark Mayo | @Calchas agreed, much the same as if a video camera is pointed at the user subtly. Nothing is ever totally secure, but 2FA goes a long way to helping these days. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 14:37 | comment | added | Calchas | @MarkMayo An application running in the same user context on a Windows machine can grab the contents of a password field, whether it is displayed on the screen or not. I am sure there are key logger-style apps that do this automatically, since combing through keystrokes to find a password is already dull. The fact is, you can make things a bit more difficult for the attacker, but if he controls the machine your efforts are largely pointless. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 12:42 | comment | added | Mark Mayo | @JanDoggen yeah, but it'll just be extra effort if they have to dig through - obviously the actual password field is still invisible. They'll go for the person after you who hasn't bothered to hide stuff instead :/ | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 12:38 | comment | added | user40521 | then in an open notepad type a bunch of garbage That is useless nowadays. Many keyloggers have screenshot capabilities. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 11:49 | history | answered | Mark Mayo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |