Keylogger Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Proof of concept: iPhone captures keystrokes via 'thump phreaking'

by Chris Rawson (Oct 19th, 2011)

Researchers at Georgia Tech have worked up a proof-of-concept demonstration of using an iPhone 4's accelerometer as a keylogger. After setting the iPhone near a computer keyboard, the device's built-in accelerometer and gyroscope were able to decipher entire sentences "with up to 80 percent ...

Backtrack: log everything you type

by Mat Lu (Apr 12th, 2007)

A while ago we posted on using a keylogger to recover text after a program crash. While that sort of works, it's a very inelegant solution, as the keylogger records, unsurprisingly, each and every keystroke including backspaces and deletes, etc. so getting the text back out often requires quite a ...

logKext keylogger

by Mat Lu (Mar 29th, 2007)

One my family members seems to lose her work distressingly often, particularly long blog posts she composes in browser windows which then crash. In trying to think up a solution to this problem I hit on the idea of using a keylogger that would record all of her keystrokes, and thus allow me to ...

For those of you worried about security...

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 18th, 2006)

There is a little application I mentioned way back in September 2005: MacScan. Does it work? Well I have no idea, because I don't use it, and I've never heard of any particular spyware for the Mac. Yet somehow a new version is out which protects against "all the latest threats." Like that ...

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