site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On Feb 16, 2005, at 11:06 PM, bjk02@hampshire.edu wrote: My $0.02. -Mike _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... I've been working on a kernel extension that adds functionality to the IOHIDSystem class. Specifically, I want to be able to intercept mouse and keyboard events, manipulate specific events, and then pass them along. The point of doing this in a kernel extension is so that I can do this before the events arrive at the target application. (Incidentally, if there is a way to do this without writing a kernel extension, perhaps at the point where the window server receives the events, please do tell! AFAIK, though, there isn't.) I don't have a solution or even any real data for TOP, but I would like to inject a comment into the discussion. I certainly hope that if there is a way to do this _without_ installing a kernel extension that it operates in a secure manner. I should have to authenticate as an admin on the system to get such a thing installed even when running under and admin account. Otherwise this would be an obvious path to bring all manner of spyware to the platform. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com