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ctcx
The keyboard I use started to fail and needs to be replaced.
As such, more than once has happened to me that, when logging out from X session and back in, the Enter key is not read and end up typing password in the “Login” box instead of the Password one.
Obviously it fails and I have to try again.
However, just a paranoid doubt of mine: do this errors pose a heavy security risk?
Could I be attacked with this? Even if positive that I have no strange stuff installed…Thanks.
ModdIt
Hi ctcx,
security risk depends on who is behind or next to you, beware of children too, or if
there is a security camera capturing the screen. In a company I once visited the security guard had
a list of passwords he had collected from office and cantine cameras. That was in an asian country
that had cameras near everywhere.I think it pretty unlikely that an attacker could grab the screen at login stage. Hope I an not wrong :-).
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