Timeline for How to safely use password-protected websites on internet cafe computers
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| Sep 20, 2016 at 14:30 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | Since changing the password typically requires you to repeat the old one, it would be quite easy to detect. Modern keyloggers also tend to take screenshots every few seconds. | |
| Sep 20, 2016 at 14:26 | comment | added | user1364368 | As I wrote in the last sentence of my answer: This approach helps only if the attacker is so "sloppy" that he doesn't scan the end of the data recorded by the key logger for passwords. If you log in, write some e-mails, then change the password, and write some more e-mails, it will be rather hard to detect the second password in the data recorded by the key logger. | |
| Sep 20, 2016 at 13:19 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | This assumes hacker can intercept the password you enter at the start of the session, but not the one at the end. How would that happen? | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 7:10 | review | First posts | |||
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| Sep 19, 2016 at 7:01 | history | answered | user1364368 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |