defeating key loggers ?

[davidh]

Apparently bad guys are having increased success putting key loggers on public computers, to steal from brokerage and bank accounts.

When entering ID and password, enter only one or two characters in a field at a time and then use the mouse to move to the other field. Key loggers that do not monitor mouse movements would then see scrambled numbers instead of the real ID and PW.

Of course this is not foolproof. Just an additional precaution.

I wonder if there are cell phones equipped with telephoto lenses or hi-res imaging so that code thieves could make short video clips of people keying in credit card numbers on public phones. To play back later at their leisure to reconstruct the numbers from the finger movements.

David H