Password masking. You all know what it is, right? It’s when you type in your password, and instead of “shearer9″ or, if you’re feeling particularly security conscious “p@55w0rd”, but all you see is either •••••••• or ******** depending on what you’re using. This of course prevents The Hooded Claw from being able to read your password over your shoulder and type it in. Now, I don’t know about you , but I tend not to let people I don’t know come into my house and sit behind me when I’m connecting to online security services. Also, I bet if you compare the number of passwords stolen by machines infected with keyloggers as compared to Sylvester Sneekly looking over your shoulder, I’d suspect keyloggers would win hands down. Besides which, if Sylvester Sneekly is looking over your shoulder, he could always watch the keyboard to...
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