Re: Identity Theft Protection (a method)

From: Vanguard (vanguard.code_at_comcastNIX.net)
Date: 09/11/05 

Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:11:21 -0500

"Brad" <bpetria@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:43243407.3329992@news.bellatlantic.net...
<snip>
> From now on, my computer boots into Dos mode (Windows isn't launched
> yet)
> where there is no chance of launching a key logger.

Unless, of course, the keylogger is a DOS virus, boot sector virus, or
root kit that replaced or modified your DOS kernel and/or command
interpreter. Or it is a hardware keylogger (dongle) attached to your
keyboard (inline with the cable or a modified motherboard) that couldn't
give a gnat's fart about which OS you load. Or the keylogger is a
traffic monitor (packet sniffer) upstream of your host that couldn't
care less about what you hit on the keyboard since it really just wants
the data in your unencrypted traffic. Or, like the CIA, uses the
differing EMF produced by the different keys on your keyboard to tell
which one and in which order you hit them (and you don't even have to be
sitting near a window anymore).

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