Re: "hooking" into another app
Re: "hooking" into another app
- Subject: Re: "hooking" into another app
- From: "I. Savant" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:45:58 -0400
Though the link was funny, I'll ignore the flamebait and answer the
technical aspect of this post:
You yourself said that the OS is resistant against this sort of
attack in the following quotes:
Well, password fields are "special" and are 'resistant' to key
logging, but you don't have to 'hook into' any apps to log the rest.
Note the quotes around 'resistant'. Password fields are not simply
left open to key logging like everything else. Try it - write a key
logger that logs all keyboard events on the system (you'll need
Carbon). Then google around for the 'why'.
Whether it's bullet proof or not was neither asserted by my post
nor defended by others. It's merely 'resistant' to key logging. There
are easier ways of getting a user's passwords (say, from their
keychain) if you've managed to sneak an application on their system.
I dont know what could be confusing about logging text that is
displayed in a text field, perhaps you could elaborate on how this
was confusing.
With the exception of the first misinterpretation (which was not a
big deal, please forgive us our humanity), the OPs question was
answered with several approaches: APE, AppleScript, and the
Accessibility API. All are valid, all have advantages and disadvantages.
--
I.S.
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