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Old 27th Sep 2002, 13:33
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DoMePlease
 
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You silly boy! They way those bastards did it is so very simple. No hacking or special techinical skills. All they used was a "key logger" program. That is, a program that records all the keystrokes that a user types. This program can be found all over the net... just search "key logger". The program basically records the keystrokes into a text file. When the perpetrator sees you leaving the cafe, he hops onto the computer and has a look at that text file. If they see www.hsbc.com, then they know every keystroke after that is a gold mine... casue most likely the next few keystrokes is a username followed by a password.
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