Re:Smartphones' accelerometer can track strokes on nearby ke...
by jrockway on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @11:02PM
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The attack is for when you get a password prompt on the other end, like for su, sudo, or logging into another machine. The password for the original connection is sent as one packet, but the other passwords are normal keystrokes.
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Re:Smartphones' accelerometer can track strokes on nearby ke...
by gaius on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @08:29AM
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Well, in TCP anyway. LAT was a line-oriented protocol. This is why back in the day VMS boxes could support so many more users than Unix boxes - the host didn't have to process every keypress and the network didn't have to send a packet for it, if you were dealing in complete lines. The flipside obv is that VMS needed (very) slightly smarter dumb terminals.