[PGP-USERS] Password Keystroke Snarfer Programs (passphrase protection)

Bill Frantz frantz at netcom.com
Tue Dec 24 12:05:22 PST 1996


At 6:45 PM -0800 12/23/96, Norman Hardy wrote:
>... Second
>they must not be encumbered with piles of tools written by people with
>no sense of security. Such tools are often installed with more authority
>than they should require. There is a Unix system call that displays the
>most recent command that any user has typed. This call is used by the
>ps command to describe the origin of a task.
>
>Perhaps NT is new enough that it hasn't gathered all of these holes.
>I don't use NT so I wouldn't know.

NT 4.0 has a similar tool.


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