Tracking Computers

[c1sc0m4n]

Here's a Russian proverb...my great-grandmother used to say it...
"Ni popri hovno, lebu budj smerdet"

Tim

[crashburn181]

High frequ. noise from the cpu that would be very interesting to me..
althought it might not help the war agaist computer intrusion but being able to find out what sombody is typing just by the sound of the keys on a keyboard now that is high tech. I recored the keystroks of this post with a mic conected to my machine. I looked at the freq on a graph. I found only some keys make diff sounds. The biggest problem is that some keys are hit harder or softer than others making it very diffacult to try to figure out what sounds the diffrent keys make. If you hit the keys with the same amount of force then you could seperate the keys into diff sounds. But the human factor makes noise freq. keylogging unreliable...

[brokencrow]

There's other ways, a bit more obtuse, to track keyboard usage, say,
on a website like this. I believe javascript can be used to do it,
and that is to track typing patterns and speed. If you think about
it, everyone probably has a unique style of typing. Of course, the
way around that is composing in, say, notepad, then cut-and-paste.

But then, how paranoid can one get?

As for fish rotting from the head, I always took it as a metaphor about leadership.