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Topic: Virtual keyboards. Do they really work. (Read 5383 times)

legendary
Activity: 1918
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Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending
April 27, 2013, 08:21:42 PM
#9
With the advent of Google Glasses, we're virtually there. Mark my words, within ten years, looking like Borgs will be coming into vogue, with the pages taken from the steampunk community somehow making the visible equipment required fashionable.
Can I get mine in brass?

Sure, but don't complain to me if you're wearing brass when copper and zinc may be what's in vogue.
hero member
Activity: 532
Merit: 500
FIAT LIBERTAS RVAT CAELVM
April 27, 2013, 02:15:04 PM
#8
With the advent of Google Glasses, we're virtually there. Mark my words, within ten years, looking like Borgs will be coming into vogue, with the pages taken from the steampunk community somehow making the visible equipment required fashionable.
Can I get mine in brass?
legendary
Activity: 1918
Merit: 1570
Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending
April 27, 2013, 02:06:18 PM
#7
Since the advent of the internet as we know it today, I've always envisioned no physical keyboard, mouse, server or monitor. A simple device, which is carried, connects one to the cloud, with communication done via voice or a holographic keyboard on a holographic monitor.

With the advent of Google Glasses, we're virtually there. Mark my words, within ten years, looking like Borgs will be coming into vogue, with the pages taken from the steampunk community somehow making the visible equipment required fashionable.

Don't believe me? Who in their right mind would ever miss a meeting when the staff looks like this?

hero member
Activity: 532
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FIAT LIBERTAS RVAT CAELVM
April 27, 2013, 01:22:28 PM
#6

I've been told that virtual keyboards don't really work since a keylogger is still able to record key inputs without key strokes. Is there some truth to this?
Some loggers also take pictures of mouse clicks, so on-screen keyboards would not save you.
hero member
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Merit: 501
April 27, 2013, 10:27:02 AM
#5
There is always possibility to make custom tools intruder will have no idea how to use.
hero member
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No Maps for These Territories
April 27, 2013, 09:20:50 AM
#4
What if you have a computer that's downloaded the qt client once, and then is still connected to the internet but never, ever, EVER downloads anything else or goes on the internet using a browser.  Still possible to infect?
It's possible (there may be a remote exploit in the OS, or even in the bitcoin client itself) but unlikely. By far most infections happen while browsing the internet and/or email.
sr. member
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Merit: 250
Find me at Bitrated
April 27, 2013, 08:48:29 AM
#3
What if you have a computer that's downloaded the qt client once, and then is still connected to the internet but never, ever, EVER downloads anything else or goes on the internet using a browser.  Still possible to infect?
legendary
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Merit: 1008
If you want to walk on water, get out of the boat
April 27, 2013, 07:52:41 AM
#2
Yeah, if your computer is infected then NOTHING you do on that computer is safe. NOTHING.
full member
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Hoist the Colours
April 27, 2013, 07:07:53 AM
#1

I've been told that virtual keyboards don't really work since a keylogger is still able to record key inputs without key strokes. Is there some truth to this?
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