Inside-Logger Blog

Internet Cafes have constantly lost their popularity in the last decade. Still, when you are traveling or you don’t have the possibility to access your personal (portable) computer, Internet Cafes are the first option. Regardless what your need is that makes you enter one of those, as a surfer that knows a few issues about privacy and Internet security, you can’t help noticing the variety of ocasions to expose personal data in a dangerous manner. It’s not about paranoia, but the truth is that many valuable data can make the point of this conversation: bank account numbers, social security numbers, account passwords and personal emails. Doesn’t that sound tempting yet?

Besides the viruses or Trojan application that can be waiting for you on an Internet Café station, the worst type of danger is represented by key logging applications, or shortly - keyloggers. The prejudice caused by keyloggers used with bad intentions reaches way beyond damaging your files on a memory stick, because if your bank account number is in question, the theft can be a consistent one.

Here are some tips to simply avoid that situation. Some of them are more desirable than the others, but the important thing is that alternatives exist:

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Just as I was saying in my previous post at some point, the key logging applications have received a rather grey label after the great virus/ anti-virus explosion from the mid 90s. You can say that keyloggers can be considered quite menacing cyber weapons, sure, but I have insisted that this case appears when behind the keylogger there is a bad intended person. It is also normal for a good anti-virus to classify keyloggers as malware because these applications launch system calls in order to catch the keystrokes, but I am sure positive and constructive purposes can be enumerated.

So I was pleasantly surprised to find out in what simple and efficient manner the people from Lenovo have redesign their notebooks’ keyboards using the information provided by key monitoring.

The model in question is the new T400s ThinkPad. Any notebook “regular” would notice from the first glance that the Delete and Escape keys are way oversized, at least doubled in size compared to the other utility keys. Let’s see how they came with such a design idea:

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