There are many ways to spread it besides a virus. Zillions of 'em. And
There are zillions (what, more than one thousand?) ways to get someone to run a random piece of software that will capture their keystrokes?
Not wishing to get in the middle of this controversy, I have been wondering about the possibility of using a JAVA applet to do keyboard sniffing. As I am not familiar with this language, does anyone know if this would be possible?
From what I've read about Java, it is not possible to use Java in this way. But keep in mind that while I've got this neat-o book on Java at my elbow, I'm not independently wealthy nor am I a college student with lots of time on his hands, so I haven't gotten very far into the book. But from what I've read and heard, it's not possible to compromise the integrity of the interpreter - unless, of course, you buy into the conspiracy crap that FV is trying to sell, and an Evil Computer Genius has managed to replace your Java interpreter with one of his own design, which he then uses to subvert your entire operating system and machine, etc. <insert sound of manicial laughter here> ;) -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com 214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager 800/558-3408 SkyPager Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744@anon.penet.fi
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